During our first industrial visit in Center for Information and Communication Technology (CICT) in UTM, we were fortunate enough to learn how CICT does their work and services in UTM KL and JB. When we had our visit, I was really inspired on how their system and organization working to make the system running without having a lot of problems.
Since we are studying degree in data engineering, we are having the same dream, to be a data engineer in the future. Data engineer is someone that build massive reservoirs for big data. They develop and maintain such as database and large-scale data processing system. Data engineer may work together with data architect and data scientist. They often struggle with problems associated with database integration and messy, unstructured data sets. Their final aim is to provide clean, usable data to whomever may require it.
During the visit, we amazed on how all the data in UTM KL and JB being connected to each other and how their teamwork within the organization to produce a good services for all the students and staff in UTM either in KL or JB which it becoming one of our reason why we choose to be a data engineer in the future. Besides, CICT also provided services to manage, supervise and maintain the main database of the University which is being used by UTM university system which make we feel more inspired to pursue in this job.
Since we are interested in data engineering, there a lot of improvement that we need to do to be a part of the industry. One of them is we need to be fluent in the language and tools to help us to get hired. We also need to be extremely comfortable at the command line. Besides, we have to master in two or three programming language such as c++,c and java. This will help us to gain a lot of skill which can draw people attention that will help us to get hired. Last but not least, we also need to understand database management and in-depth knowledge of SQL which is hugely valuable. This skill also will give us a lot of help especially if we are interested in freelancing business.