Xinran Waibel is a Senior Software Engineer with a specialization in Data Engineering. She has over six 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, a publication dedicated to data engineering.