Training
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You get smarter every day
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"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." Mahatma Gandhi
We will not send you on a mission and sell you as an expert until you really are one. We have experienced this too often as consultants in previous companies.
First of all we don't claim ourselves as a "can do everything" company and only focus on a specific modern data stack. This means we have clear set of technologies on which we train ourselves and become experts.
Based on your position we will establish a training track for you that will be reviewed once every six weeks in coordination with your mentor.
The first four weeks as Astrafy are dedicated to training and internal projects. You will also be invited to take some certificates at the end of those four weeks. After those 4 weeks and based on your expertise you will be onboarded on a project at a customer. This doesn't mean at all that your training activities will stop. We allocate 10% to 15% of your time for training and conferences.
Within our "" space you will find a section on "Training Track"; in there we detail in-depth the training track we recommend for each technology. We also share a checklist for each Google Cloud certification and a list of curated articles.
We have a yearly subscription with Cloud Guru platform where a multitude of relevant courses are available with no limits. For other courses we pay every time "on-demand". This gives us the flexibility to choose the best courses across education platforms.
We don't put a limit on the number of training and certifications you take but we just ask to have this reviewed by your mentor beforehand. For payments of those courses and certifications, you can use your Revolut Business card.
Each developer will have his/her own Google Cloud sandbox project to play around and get concrete experience on the technologies being learnt.
On top of those sandbox projects, we also host a GKE cluster that has Airbyte, Lightdash and Hasura hosted on it at the moment. For each one of those applications, we have dummy data and a demo repo you can use.
Conferences are a great way to:
know about the latest trends in a specific topic
meet the best influencers
Know what your competitors are doing and how to set your company apart
have fun while learning at the same time
We usually try to send each employee to one or two conferences per year. Those are the conferences we have been going over the last years and that we will continue to go in the coming years:
Google Cloud next
Kubecon
Hashiconf
Coalesce
On top of attending those conferences we also submit applications to be speakers and share our expertise on those technologies. Speaking at such events is a truly unique and enriching experience.