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Data Engineering Open Forum 2025
The second edition of Data Engineering Open Forum continued the tradition of bringing together the data engineering community at the Netflix office in Los Gatos for cutting-edge technical talks, lightning sessions, and panel discussions.
// Wednesday, April 23, 2025
How Netflix built a Real-Time Distributed Graph for Internet Scale
Luis Medina // Senior Data Engineer at Netflix
Adrian Taruc // Senior Data Engineer at Netflix
// Recording not available
Apache Spark™ 4.0 for Data Engineering
Jules S. Damji // Technical Staff at Databricks
Allison Wang // Staff Software Engineer at Databricks
Apache Gluten: Revolutionizing Data Processing Efficiency on Apache Spark
Binwei Yang // Principal Engineer at IBM
Delivering Scalable Insights for a New Product Launch: Games at Netflix
Michael Cuthbert // Senior Data Engineer at Netflix
Sunil Palepu // Senior Data Engineer at Netflix
// Recording not available
Lightning Talks: Speed up your pipelines with Storage Partitioned Joins
Ariel Marcus // Senior Data Engineer at Netflix
Lightning Talks: Do Work that Matters - Balancing Foundational Work against Stakeholder Requests
Lauren Lin // Data Engineering Manager at Dropbox
Lightning Talks: Big Data Analytics and DevOps belong together: Deployment Automation for Business Intelligence team
Nataliya Nadtoka // Manager of Data Engineering at Basis Technologies
Making Lakehouse Table Formats & Catalogs work for your data using Apache XTable (Incubating)
Dipankar Mazumdar // Staff Data Engineer Advocate at Onehouse.ai
The Feedback Loop
Michael Jennings // Director LinkedIn Strategy - Product at Netflix
Keyser Soderberg // Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
Margaux Bhatt // Senior Director Content Data Science
// Recording not available
How Metronome Scaled their Real-Time Usage Based Billing Pipeline to Billions of Events Per Day
Apurva Mehta // Co-Founder and CEO at Responsive
Nick Dellamaggiore // Software Engineer at Metronome
Enabling Reliable Metrics and Insights with DataJunction a Semantic Layer
Yian Shang // Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
Panel: The Future of Data Engineering
Inna Giguere // Director Content and Studio Data Engineering at Netflix
Ryan Blue // Technical Staff at Databricks
Jery Wang // Data Infrastructure Senior Leader at Airbnb
Tulika Bhatt // Senior Software Engineer at Netflix (Moderator)
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