Derar Alhussein
Founder & CEO at O'Reilly
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolDerar Alhussein is a data engineering leader and founder with a decade of hands-on experience building reliable data pipelines and certification-ready training programs from Dubai. As Founder & CEO of Acadford he has helped over 90,000 data engineers prepare for Databricks certification, and he also authors and teaches Databricks courses for O’Reilly. Technically fluent in Spark, Python and the Azure Databricks ecosystem, he has driven architecture and production projects at Cegid spanning Delta Lake, ADF, DevOps and ADLS. His background combines early software and CRM development with analytics and BI work, giving him a rare end-to-end view from ETL to dashboards. Authoring an O’Reilly study guide underscores his commitment to knowledge sharing and practical, test-oriented learning.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master in Data Mining and Knowledge Management, Master in Data Mining and Knowledge Management at Université Lumière Lyon 2Erasmus Mundus Master in Data Mining and Knowledge Management (DMKM), Erasmus Mundus Master in Data Mining and Knowledge Management (DMKM) at Polytech Nantes
English, French
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Github contributions (5)
derar-alhussein/DB-Normalizer
Nov 2015 - Dec 2022
Contributions:3 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 2 months
derar-alhussein/Databricks-Certified-Data-Engineer-Professional
Apr 2023 - Feb 2025
The resources of the preparation course for Databricks Data Engineer Professional certification exam
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 10 months
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