Mentor standards
Minimum three years operating Spark in multi-tenant clusters, published change logs from prior teaching engagements, and willingness to decline marketing talking points from vendors mid-class.
Careers rail
Mentor collective & classroom ops
We hire facilitators who can read a Spark UI without squinting and who tolerate redacted production DAGs in reviews. Below is how work flows between learners, mentors, and rack operators.
Workflow schema
Learning workflow
Monday drops pre-reads, Wednesday is live critique, Friday is silent lab with async thread—no surprise Saturday deadlines unless a security bulletin forces it (published with rationale).
Classroom tools
Shared Grafana stacks, VPN profiles with explicit TTLs, and JupyterHub templates pinned per cohort so drift is visible instead of mystical.