Snowflake Northstar

Snowflake Northstar serves as the educational division of Snowflake, offering comprehensive training programs in cloud data platform technologies and modern data engineering. Their course portfolio includes two flagship programs: "Intro to Snowflake for Devs, Data Scientists, Data Engineers" (beginner level) and "Introduction to Modern Data Engineering with Snowflake" (intermediate level). The introductory course has attracted over 5,775 learners and focuses on fundamental concepts including virtual warehouses, databases, schemas, and Snowpark DataFrames. The Modern Data Engineering course, with 1,726 enrollments, covers advanced topics in building continuous data pipelines and large-scale data transformation. Both courses feature hands-on assignments, practical exercises, and real-world applications, maintaining high student satisfaction rates with instructor ratings of 4.9/5. Their curriculum emphasizes practical skills development through interactive labs, covering topics from basic SQL queries to advanced data engineering concepts, making complex cloud computing concepts accessible to learners at various skill levels.