Your question is Connecting Background to Data Engineering. Take a moment with it on the right.
Talk me through your thinking if you like. When you're confident, submit your answer and I'll grade it like a real screen (7/10 or better passes).
Walk me through your educational background and previous work experience, and explain how those experiences prepared you for data engineering work. Please focus on one or two specific projects where you built, improved, or owned data pipelines or data platforms, and tell me why those experiences shaped the direction of your career.