Hello everyone!

I would like to share my experience and mistakes that can be useful to everyone who wants to be living and working in another country.

TL; DR: I currently live in Victoria, Vancouver Island. This is Canada, British Columbia. I realized my dream of living by the ocean, but it took 5 years, and at first there were completely different plans. More details below. Below is a picture of my jobs over the past 10 years.

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In addition to working at Amazon, I am also working on creating a consulting company for the North American market - Rock Your Data . The main focus is the migration of analytics to AWS, GCP and Microsoft Azure cloud solutions.

Well, in conclusion, I want to talk about the latest project. I decided to educate those who want my profession for free - data engineer, and share the experience that I have gained over the past 10 years - datalearn.ru

If I missed some important and useful point, then I will definitely supplement it. All in all, British Columbia and Vancouver Island are a wonderful place to live. And there is surf too (;