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PySpark Data Engineering: The Complete Real-World Workflow (Udemy.com)

Learn PySpark through a real project workflow: interactive dev, modular ETL, Dev/QA, Airflow, Git & production handoff.

Created by: Chandra Venkat

Last updated August 2026

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What you will learn

  • Understand Spark fundamentals and develop PySpark code interactively using Jupyter and PySpark Shell.
  • Turn interactive PySpark code into modular, reusable ETL applications using DataFrames and Spark SQL.
  • Run the same PySpark application across Dev and QA using environment-specific configurations and parameters.
  • Schedule and orchestrate PySpark pipelines using Airflow and manage code through real-world Git workflows.
  • Follow the complete project delivery workflow from development and testing to Jira-based production handoff.

How it compares

Against the other 1,182 rated Udemy courses in IT & Software on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 30% of them
  • Reviews111#975 of 1,183 by number of reviews
  • Length5.8 hourslonger than 51% of them
  • Last updatedAugust 2026more recently than 85% of them

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Course Description

Want to learn PySpark for Data Engineering and understand how it is actually used in a real project?

This course goes beyond isolated PySpark syntax and transformations to show you the complete workflow around PySpark code in a Data Engineering project.

You'll see how PySpark code is developed interactively, turned into modular ETL applications, run across Dev/QA environments, orchestrated with Airflow, managed through Git, monitored using Spark UI and logs, and finally taken through the Production handoff process.


What You'll Learn

  • Develop PySpark interactively using Jupyter and PySpark Shell

  • Build ETL pipelines using DataFrames and Spark SQL

  • Turn interactive code into modular, reusable PySpark applications

  • Structure applications using scripts, configs, environment files, and reusable modules

  • Run applications using spark-submit

  • Run the same application across Dev and QA environments

  • Schedule and orchestrate pipelines using cron and Airflow

  • Manage code using Git branching and merging workflows

  • Monitor and troubleshoot applications using Spark UI and logs

  • Follow the Production handoff and deployment process


Hands-On Project Workflow

You'll work with Spark/PySpark, Airflow, Docker, HDFS, Jupyter, and Git while building end-to-end Data Engineering projects.

The course follows the journey:

Interactive Development → ETL → Modular Application → Dev/QA → Orchestration → Git → Monitoring → Production Handoff


Who Is This For?

This course is for Data Engineers, developers, and ETL professionals who want practical PySpark experience and want to understand how PySpark code fits into the broader Data Engineering project workflow.


By the End

You won't just know how to write PySpark code. You'll understand how that code is developed, structured, executed, orchestrated, managed across environments, monitored, and taken through the Production handoff in a Data Engineering project.

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Instructor Details

Chandra Venkat

I’m Chandra Venkat, a data engineer with over 12 years of experience across SQL, Big Data, and cloud platforms including GCP, BigQuery, and Apache Spark.


Over the years, I’ve built and delivered production data pipelines across multiple cloud environments. I now focus on teaching practical, job-ready data engineering skills used in company environments.


My teaching approach is simple: break down complex topics into clear, usable concepts so learners can get comfortable working on data engineering pipelines.


Outside Udemy, I teach practical, company-grade data engineering pipelines at Data0to1 for engineers transitioning into data engineering roles in companies.

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Reviews

4.4

111 ratings on Udemy

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By Shivam Gupta on 9/14/2026

Yes. It's good! Especially for the Professionals who are already in DE Field.

By Maheswaran M on 2/16/2026

It's a great course if you are trying to get into Data Engineering roles surely need to check out his video to have real time data processing knowledge.

By Tammisetti Manogna on 1/24/2026

The course is pretty good, and I am learning a lot. But it is completely based on windows environment, and there is no proper guidance on how to fix some errors on Mac in the course. So, if you add a solution where it can go wrong in mac environment, it will be better.

By Divakar on 12/6/2025

"This is one of the best PySpark courses I’ve taken. The concepts are explained clearly, and every topic is connected to real industry use cases. The hands-on labs, ETL project make the course very job-focused. Great course for both beginners and working professionals."

By Kalogeropoulos Giannis on 12/1/2025

Although the content was valuable, the lecture delivery could be improved with better preparation and reduced use of filler words to create a more engaging and confident teaching style.

By Le Hai on 12/1/2025

This course has been very helpful and introduced me to many new concepts in Data Engineering. I really appreciated the clear explanations and the hands-on approach, especially with Docker, PySpark, and Airflow. The practical exercises made it easy to follow the workflow end-to-end. One suggestion I have is that some parts only showed how to run certain commands without fully explaining the syntax or the reasoning behind them. As a beginner, I sometimes followed the steps without fully understanding why they worked, and had to look things up on my own. I understand the time limitations of a Bootcamp-style course, but a bit more explanation in key areas would help learners understand the concepts more deeply. Overall, it’s a strong and valuable course, and I learned a lot from it.

By Rajesh R.M. on 10/13/2025

Thanks for this wonderful course. Course is designed as a quickstart guide into the world of Spark. Appreciate the efforts Chandra has taken to give real experience of deploying the pipelines in DEV and PROD environments and the best practices followed in the industry.

By Saipriyank Gadepalli on 9/4/2025

Overall a good course. More scenarios of pyspark in jupiter notebook would have been better. Good course for a project level.

By Michael McFall on 8/20/2025

I needed a course to teach me how to connect all of these components and then how to use them. This course gave me that. Chandra is also very responsive to questions.

By ramyasri udatha on 6/3/2025

Really happy with this course. Most PySpark courses just stop at basics, but this one goes a step further with real production pipelines. Setting up with Shell+Cron and Airflow was very practical — gave me a clear idea of how things actually work in a real project."

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Overall Score : 88 / 100