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9 industry-grade Databricks projects

Databricks Zero to Expert: PySpark, Delta Lake & GenAI (With Projects & Interview Prep)

Unleash your data superpowers with Databricks! Master PySpark, Delta Lake, and GenAI with hands-on projects and ace your interview preparation. From zero to expert in no time.

One-time payment. Lifetime access. No EMI needed.

“I could walk through ADF to Databricks to serving with real examples. That landed me a Lead DE role in the UAE.”

Manish AcharyaLead Data Engineer, UAE

“Exactly what LSE interviewers asked about. It finally clicked as one system.”

Toshita ChakrabortyLondon Stock Exchange

“I applied RAG and embeddings on client work within weeks.”

Arushi GuptaData Engineer, EXL
The Incident Triage App running on Databricks: an agent finds a similar past incident with 96 percent confidence and suggests a fix.
The Incident Triage App you build in the course
  • 6,433+Learners
  • Self-pacedPre-recorded course
  • 8Courses in one package
  • 9Projects included

Sound familiar?

If any of these describe you, the problem isn’t effort. It’s that nothing you’ve studied connects into one system you can explain.

  1. 1You’ve watched 100+ YouTube tutorials but can’t explain a Databricks pipeline end-to-end in an interview.
  2. 2Your resume says “Spark” and “Azure” but you’ve never built anything beyond a Jupyter notebook.
  3. 3You keep getting rejected at the system design round because you can’t connect ingestion, transformation, and serving.
  4. 4Senior roles ask for “Databricks experience” and all you have is theory from video courses.

You don’t need another tutorial. You need one production project you can walk through from start to finish.

What makes this different

Hands-on time with the same Databricks tools your next team uses: a real workspace, production repos, CI/CD and working apps.

Databricks workspace sidebar and the Serving endpoints page

A real Databricks workspace

Build and run pipelines on actual Databricks infrastructure, including serving endpoints.

The Databricks-Zero-to-Hero GitHub repository

Production-grade projects

Follow production code from the Databricks-Zero-to-Hero GitHub repo, then build your own on Delta Lake.

GitHub Actions runs of the Deploy Databricks Asset Bundle workflow

CI/CD pipelines

Deploy Databricks Asset Bundle workflows with GitHub Actions, the way engineering teams ship.

The Data Dictionary app showing the customers table

Working apps

Build and deploy the Incident Triage App, a Data Dictionary and a DQ Rules Suggester.

The GeekCoders course portal showing all eight Databricks Zero to Expert courses

8 courses. 34+ chapters across the core tracks.

  • 01PySpark Interview PreparationInterview prep
  • 02Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate13 chaptersCore
  • 03Data Warehouse on Databricks14 chaptersCore
  • 04Generative AI Application Development7 chaptersBonus
  • 05End-to-End Project with Delta LakeProject
  • 06Generative AI Engineer TrainingBonus
  • 07End-to-End Gen AI ProjectBonus
  • 08Agentic AI BootcampNew

Courses in the package

Open any course to see what it covers. The two core tracks are highlighted.

PySpark Interview Preparation

Interview prep50 real problems

The PySpark questions interviewers actually ask, worked through in code. You practise explaining a Spark job out loud, the way you will in the round.

  • 50 curated PySpark problems sourced from real MNC interview rounds
  • DataFrame API patterns: joins, groupBy, aggregations, pivot and unpivot
  • Window functions: ROW_NUMBER, RANK, LAG, LEAD, running totals, top-N per group
  • Spark SQL: deduplication, gaps and islands, sessionization
  • Performance: broadcast hints, repartition vs coalesce, AQE, skew handling
  • SCD Type 1/2, incremental loads, CDC and MERGE patterns

Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate

Core13 chapters

Thirteen chapters built around the Databricks Data Engineer Associate certification. Each topic runs on a real workspace, so the exam concepts stay attached to something you have actually built.

  • Workspace, clusters, compute types, repos and jobs
  • Spark architecture: driver/executor, DAGs, lazy evaluation
  • Delta Lake: ACID, MERGE, schema evolution, time travel, OPTIMIZE, VACUUM
  • Unity Catalog: governance, fine-grained access, lineage
  • Lakeflow declarative pipelines, expectations, streaming tables
  • Workflows, Dashboards, Alerts and SQL Editor
  • Exam-pattern walkthroughs and practice tests

Data Warehouse on Databricks

Core14 chapters

Fourteen chapters on building a data warehouse on Databricks, from raw ingestion to tables that reporting can serve. This is where ingestion, transformation and serving become one system.

  • Conceptual, logical and physical models; Kimball vs Inmon
  • Star and snowflake schemas, grain definition, conformed dimensions
  • SCD Type 1/2/3 and when to use each
  • Additive, semi-additive and factless facts; surrogate keys
  • Mapping dimensional design onto the medallion architecture

Generative AI Application Development

Bonus7 chapters

Seven chapters on building Gen AI applications on Databricks. Notebook-first, so you build as you learn.

  • Foundation Models and external models on Databricks
  • Mosaic AI Agent Framework and Unity Catalog functions as tools
  • Vector Search: chunking, filters, hybrid search
  • Model Serving, evaluation and access control

End-to-End Project with Delta Lake

Project

One project that connects ingestion, transformation and reporting on Delta Lake. It is the walkthrough you give when an interviewer asks you to design a pipeline.

  • Bronze, Silver and Gold layers on Delta Lake
  • Auto Loader and structured streaming for incremental ingestion
  • CDF, MERGE, generated and identity columns in production
  • Vector Search and RAG layered on the same data

Generative AI Engineer Training

BonusPre-recorded

Gen AI engineer training, pre-recorded like the rest of the course. Work through it on your own schedule and bring your questions to the weekend doubt-clearing sessions.

  • LLMs, embeddings, vector databases and RAG from the ground up
  • RAG pipelines with LangChain and AWS Bedrock
  • Agents with LangChain and CrewAI
  • Observability with LangSmith and LangFuse
  • MCP and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) practices; capstone deployment

End-to-End Gen AI Project

ProjectBonus

A complete Gen AI project built on Databricks from the first notebook to a working application. Something you can put on your resume and walk through in an interview.

  • Agent Bricks with Unity Catalog-governed tools
  • Genie for natural-language analytics
  • Lakeflow orchestration for AI pipelines
  • Agent evaluation, serving and cost controls

Agentic AI Bootcamp

New4 production agents

A bootcamp on building agentic AI applications, added on top of the core Databricks tracks.

  • Data Dictionary App: MCP server over Unity Catalog with LLM-generated docs
  • Resume and JD Matcher: Vector Search + LangGraph scoring agent
  • Hospital Prior-Authorization Agent with human escalation
  • Support Ticket Triage with auto-drafted first responses
  • MLflow evaluation and deployment on Databricks Apps
Databricks Certified Data Engineer - Zero to Hero

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Practice 50 PySpark Interview Questions

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Build AI Application using Databricks and LLM

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This is what you’ll actually work with

Real Databricks infrastructure, from your workspace to the apps you deploy.

Databricks Serving endpoints page listing agent endpoints
Your Databricks workspace with real serving endpoints
Data Dictionary app with column names and PII tags
Data Dictionary you’ll build for production tables
DQ Rules Suggester listing Spark SQL constraints
DQ Rules engine you’ll configure
Databricks Apps page with deployed apps
Databricks Apps you’ll deploy
GitHub Actions Deploy Databricks Asset Bundle runs
CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions
Databricks-Zero-to-Hero GitHub repository
Production code in the public Databricks-Zero-to-Hero repo

Engineers who made the switch

Three of the 6,433+ learners on the platform.

“After Sagar’s project track I could walk through ADF to Databricks to serving with real examples. That landed me a Lead DE role in the UAE.”
Manish AcharyaLead Data Engineer, UAE
“The end-to-end project forced me to connect ingestion, transformation and reporting, exactly what LSE interviewers asked about. It finally clicked as one system.”
Toshita ChakrabortyData Engineer, London Stock Exchange
“Sagar’s modules are paced for working engineers, notebook-first, no fluff. I applied RAG and embeddings on client work within weeks.”
Arushi GuptaData Engineer, EXL

Students placed in top companies, with up to 100% hike

Company Company Etihad Airways Company Persistent Systems EXL Service
Sagar Prajapati, founder of GeekCoders

Your instructor

Sagar Prajapati

Databricks practitioner and founder of GeekCoders

Built the platform from scratch to 6,433+ learners. His teaching is notebook-first and project-driven, with every module built around real enterprise data problems. Active GitHub contributor with production Databricks repos and CI/CD workflows.

Self-paced pre-recorded course. Weekend doubt-clearing sessions directly with Sagar.

Databricks Zero to Expert, complete package

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One-time payment. Lifetime access.

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Everything included

  • 8 courses and 9 projects, from PySpark interview prep to Agentic AI
  • Real Databricks workspace access
  • GitHub repos with production code
  • CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Databricks Asset Bundles
  • Resume building support
  • Self-paced, learn on your own schedule
  • Weekend doubt-clearing sessions directly with Sagar
  • Learning community of 466+ members
  • Lifetime access + certificate per course

Questions before you enroll

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Do I need prior Databricks experience?
No. The course starts from zero and goes to expert level. Basic Python and SQL help.
How long do I have access?
Lifetime access to all 8 courses, unlocked immediately on purchase. Learn at your own pace, in any order.
Is this just video content?
No. You get a real Databricks workspace, GitHub repos with production code, and weekend doubt-clearing sessions with Sagar.
Is this live or recorded?
All modules are pre-recorded so you can learn on your own schedule and rewatch any lesson anytime. Sagar also runs weekend doubt-clearing sessions where you can ask questions directly.
Will this prepare me for the certification exam?
Yes. The Data Engineer Associate track is built around the exam syllabus, and the projects give you the hands-on depth the questions assume.
Will this help me crack interviews?
Yes. It includes PySpark interview prep, resume building support, and end-to-end projects that match what interviewers ask. Students have landed roles at LSE, UAE companies, EXL and more.
Do I get a certificate?
Yes, a verified GeekCoders certificate for each course you complete, shareable on LinkedIn.

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