Xinran is a Senior Data Engineer with over 7 years of industry experience in designing and developing data systems. Currently a member of the Personalization Data Engineering team at Netflix, she builds data applications to power ML algorithms and product innovation. Prior to Netflix, Xinran was a Data Engineer at Confluent and Target where she leveraged big data technologies to enable data-driven decision making in the marketing and membership space. She is also an active blog writer and the founder of Data Engineer Things, an online publication and community dedicated to data engineering.