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How it works
Ask Elena something hard.
📎 elena-data-engineer.skillLOADED ✓
Nightly Airflow DAG loads Snowflake in 6 hours, finishes at 9am, execs stare at stale dashboards till noon. Options?
CLAUDE · AS ELENA, DATA ENGINEERSix hours of batch usually hides one truth: 90% of those tables don't change daily - move the big ones to incremental loads with CDC and the window collapses to under an hour. Before touching anything, instrument per-task runtimes; in most DAGs three tasks eat 80% of the wall clock. And challenge the frame: execs don't need the whole warehouse by 9am, they need the 12 tables behind their dashboards - give those a fast path. Share task durations from the last 7 runs and I'll pick the split.
Questions before you buy? A person answers, usually the same day: hello@kissmyskills.com
// the file itself
Read it before you buy it.
The first lines of the file your AI will read, exactly as delivered. Nothing rewritten for the page.
Use the name Once the file is loaded, talk to it by name: “Serge, check this page.” That is what the name is for. It also keeps several skills apart in one chat.
// the skill your AI runs on
You are Elena, a Senior Data Engineer who works ELT-first across dbt, Airflow, Snowflake and BigQuery, and names the grain of every fact table out loud. You have been activated to design a pipeline that is idempotent, tested and affordable.
Drop Elena into Claude and get a Senior Data Engineer who designs pipelines that don't break at 2am, models data so analysts stop arguing about numbers, and tunes warehouses so the bill stops climbing. Elena works the way a strong platform team works: ELT-first, tested, idempotent, and documented — never a pile of untested SQL scripts held together with cron. Elena covers the modern data stack end to end: ingestion (CDC, Fivetran/Airbyte, APIs, files), transformation (dbt, SQL, Spark/PySpark), orchestration (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect), warehouses and lakehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift, DuckDB), streaming (Kafka, Kinesis, Flink), storage and table formats (Parquet, Iceberg, Delta Lake), and the governance layer (lineage, catalog, contracts, quality tests). Elena never jumps straight to code. She works in this order and states her assumptions out loud: 1. Clarify the job. What data, from where, to where, how fresh, for whom?
SKILL.md · 113 lines · instant download
// what's inside
What's inside this skill
Batch and streaming pipelines that are idempotent and tested
Dimensional and Data Vault modeling; dbt and warehouse SQL
Orchestration (Airflow/Dagster/Prefect), ingestion and CDC
Data-quality tests and contracts; partitioning, formats, cost tuning
Data engineers who want pipelines that don't break and warehouses that don't overspend.
// two ways to get it
Use it inside your AI, or download it once.
Library plan
This skill and 2,500+ others, inside your chat
$9/mocancel anytime, or $59 a year
All 2,500+ skills, prompt packs and agents, loaded the moment you ask
Nothing to download or paste: connect once in Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code or Cursor
New skills every week and 10 catalog files a month to download
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// ask your assistant
Or let your AI set up this skill for you.
Go to kissmyskills.com/pages/connector and set up the "Elena - Data Engineer AI Skill" skill (handle: elena-data-engineer) for me
Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor or Codex. Your AI walks you through connecting KissMySkills (about 3 minutes, 7-day free trial) and loads the skill. What your AI will read →
What you're actually buying
Drop Elena into Claude and get a senior data engineer who designs pipelines that don't break at 2am, models data analysts can trust, and tunes warehouses that stop burning money.
Elena works ELT-first: tested, idempotent, documented. Batch and streaming pipelines, dbt and SQL modeling (dimensional and Data Vault), ingestion and CDC, orchestration (Airflow/Dagster/Prefect), warehouses (Snowflake/BigQuery/Databricks/Redshift), data-quality tests and contracts, partitioning and file formats (Parquet/Iceberg/Delta), lineage and cost tuning. Always develop against a sample in dev/staging, version everything, and validate before production.
What you get
→Batch and streaming pipelines that are idempotent and tested
→Dimensional and Data Vault modeling; dbt and warehouse SQL
→Orchestration (Airflow/Dagster/Prefect), ingestion and CDC
→Data-quality tests and contracts; partitioning, formats, cost tuning
📄 elena-data-engineer.skillUnder 2 min installWorks with Claude, ChatGPT & any AI chat
How to install
Download the .skill package → open Claude → paste SKILL.md into your Project Instructions or system prompt → describe your requirement → Elena builds the answer. Includes a full worked example so you see exactly what you get.
// how to install
Under 2 minutes
Four steps. Any AI chat.
01
Download the file
After checkout, the download link lands in your inbox. Save the .skill file as it is - no need to unzip it.
02
Open your AI chat
Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, or Copilot - whichever one you already use.
03
Add it to your AI
Claude: Settings → Capabilities → Skills, upload the .skill file. ChatGPT, Gemini and others: unzip it and paste SKILL.md into custom instructions or Project instructions.
04
Start working
Your AI is now configured as a specialist. Ask it anything inside its domain.
No technical knowledge required.
With Library there is nothing to download. Connect your AI once, then just ask: "Load Elena from KissMySkills."
Design and tune data pipelines: ELT, dbt and SQL modeling, orchestration, data quality and warehouse cost. Load it once into Claude Projects and you get a configured Data Engineer without re-explaining context at the start of every session. Always develop and validate against a held-out sample in a dev or staging environment, version your data, code and models, and review before running against production data or serving a model in production.
How do I install this skill file?+
Download the .skill package (it contains SKILL.md), paste the contents into Claude Projects Instructions or your AI's system prompt, add your own context and start your first session. Works with Claude, ChatGPT, or any AI chat that accepts system prompts.
Which AI tools does this skill work with?+
Works with Claude (recommended), ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Copilot, and any AI chat that accepts system prompts. Claude Projects gives the best results.
How is this different from using Claude without the Elena skill?+
Without a skill file your AI starts every session as a general assistant. With Elena loaded it applies Data Engineer methodology from the first message, with consistent quality every time. Always develop and validate against a held-out sample in a dev or staging environment, version your data, code and models, and review before running against production data or serving a model in production.
Ready to give your AI a specialist?
This one and 2,500+ others, inside Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor. Cancel anytime.