David Melillo

Dave Melillo is a data leader with deep expertise across data analytics, data engineering, data architecture, and data science and machine learning. He has built large-scale data products, architected modern pipelines, and trained professionals at universities and Fortune 500 companies. His writing on practical data strategies has been featured in Towards Data Science and Dev Genius.

books by David Melillo

Learn AI Data Engineering
  • MEAP began September 2025
  • Last updated May 2026
  • Publication in Fall 2026 (estimated)
  • ISBN 9781633435728
  • 225 pages (estimated)
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
catalog / Data Science / AI
resources: Source code Book forum Source code on GitHub

Learn AI Data Engineering teaches you to apply AI to the most important data engineering tasks. You’ll build a portfolio of hands-on projects, like querying the Pagila DVD rental database with ChatGPT, performing real-time sentiment analysis on news headlines, and even prototyping agentic workflows that simulate real business rules. With each lesson you’ll learn just enough theory to understand the why, and then immediately put it into practice.