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Victoria Xia

Victoria graduated with her Bachelors and Masters in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT in 2018 and has been working as an engineer on the KSQL team at Confluent since. Her work with KSQL thus far has involved security integration with Confluent Control Center, ensuring consistency among multiple KSQL servers, and identifying performance regressions.

VIDEOS

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Virtual Confluent Girl Geek Dinner – Lightning Talks and Fireside Chat!

Confluent partnered with Girl Geek X for a virtual Girl Geek Dinner with lightning talks on event streaming, navigating career growth, overcoming imposter syndrome, coming out at work, being Blackfluent, working while pregnant - followed by a fireside chat with Confluent co-founder Neha Narkhede - and networking!
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Overcoming Imposter Syndrome by Victoria Xia, Software Engineer

Though imposter syndrome has received more attention as of late, it’s still not talked about enough, given its prevalence. As open conversation is one of the most effective ways to combat these negative patterns of thinking, Victoria hopes to encourage conversation by sharing her experiences and counter tactics she’s found helpful along the way.
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