{"id":11192,"date":"2015-10-13T09:55:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T17:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spokeo.com\/compass\/?p=11192"},"modified":"2022-04-13T12:16:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T20:16:07","slug":"tech-talent-tuesday-karen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spokeo.com\/compass\/tech-talent-tuesday-karen\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Talent Tuesday: Karen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.spokeo.com\/compass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/TTT_Karen.jpg?ssl=1\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11194 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.spokeo.com\/compass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/TTT_Karen.jpg?resize=431%2C322&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"TTT_Karen\" width=\"431\" height=\"322\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>First Name:<\/strong> Ke<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nick Name<\/strong>: Karen<\/p>\n<div><strong>Title<\/strong>: Senior Data and Search Engineer (I was software engineer when I started working at Spokeo)<\/div>\n<h4>Tell us about your job. What do you do?<\/h4>\n<div>I am currently leading the ETL project within backend team. This includes building decoupled and clean structures with microservices, optimizing data normalization logic, automating ETL flows to ingest, sanitize and store data. I\u00a0also conduct research on a variety of \u00a0big data tools to find any potential improvements for\u00a0our data processing\u00a0efficiency\u00a0as well as our\u00a0\u00a0data quality.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h4>Life before Spokeo:<\/h4>\n<div>Student, Student, Student, haha~ I graduated from Cornell University with a Masters\u00a0degree and Fudan University in China with Bachelors degree in computer science. Also, I completed a\u00a09-month internship in in China with \u00a0IBM for Global Process Services, working on the business intelligence team.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h4>Most interesting Spokeo Project:<\/h4>\n<div>All backend projects!\u00a0Especially\u00a0right now, as we are moving to the cloud and I get a chance to learn more\u00a0about AWS and get\u00a0more hands-on experience with their\u00a0fancy tools and\u00a0other big data technologies.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h4>Favorite Spokeo event ever:<\/h4>\n<div>The first Christmas party for me back to 2013, Great Gasby Night &#8212; Casino!!! So much of fun and unforgettable for me \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h4>Words of advice:<\/h4>\n<div>Be passionate bout\u00a0your work, and keep yourself updated on the latest technology.<\/div>\n<div>Be a team player; you&#8217;ll never know how much you can learn from other people.<\/div>\n<div>Be confident, careful, reliable and responsible, and build high-quality products.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Name: Ke Nick Name: Karen Title: Senior Data and Search Engineer (I was software engineer when I started working at Spokeo) Tell us about your job. 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