Zach Wilson is a tech lead at Airbnb building data pipelines, previously he worked at Netflix and Facebook. Zach graduated from college at the age of 20 with degrees of math and computer science. He has over 80k followers on Linkedin.  

We talked about mental health, terminal level, promotions, work life balance, building audience on Linkedin, and the future of data engineering.  

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(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:00:41) Starting his career at 20

(00:06:38) Change of mindset

(00:11:35) His ambition

(00:15:57) Hobbies he developed

(00:19:28) Maintaining work-life balance

(00:21:31) His thoughts about the terminal level

(00:26:55) Career advice about job burned-out

(00:33:11) His daily routine

(00:39:34) Good projects to learn

(00:46:22) Doing projects using JavaScript

(00:47:56) What are the lessons he can share

(00:52:26) Growing a large audience

(01:00:13) His goal on sharing

(01:04:12) Advice for people who wants to grow an audience on LinkedIn

(01:09:28) Something he is excited about in the future

(01:14:04) Future of data engineering

(01:21:01) Connect with Zach