Data Engineering Communities
Communities for data engineering.
- Modern Data Community by Michael Kahan
- The Technical Freelancer Academy by SeattleDataGuy. This community is about Technical Freelancing in the data space, but as lots of data engineers are there, it’s a great community and super active. There’s also a newsletter.
- Practical Data Engineering Discord by Joe Reis. Super active and welcoming community. Find info on this Notion page ( Contribute, Events and more)
- Bluesky - Feed “Data BS”: Feed for posts tagged #dataBS, #databsky, or #datasky.
- The Commoncog Forum started by Cedric Chin focusing on sensemaking for business nerds.
- r/dataengineeringvault: My own subreddit focusing on high-quality data engeering and surounding topics.
# Slack Communities
Some great communities live in Slack and have many members, here are some of them. Member counts are as of 2025-07-10.
- DataTalks.Club: 74k+ Members - Large community focused on data science, machine learning, and data engineering education and discussions
- Data Engineer Things: 7k+ Members - Community dedicated specifically to data engineering topics, tools, and best practices
- Locally Optimistic: 8k+ Members - Community for analytics professionals focusing on building better data teams and practices
- Open Data Community: 6+ Members - Community centered around open data initiatives, standards, and collaborative data projects
- ASF (Apache Software Foundation): 14k+ Members - Official community for Apache Software Foundation projects including many data-related tools
- freelance-data-collective: 200+ Members - Community for freelance data professionals and independent consultants
- CodeBuddies: 15k+ Members - General programming community that includes substantial data engineering and data science discussions
Origin: Data Engineering Vault
References: dbt Coalesce Conference