What is data engineering? How does it differ from software engineering? What skills do you need to become a data engineer? What are the opportunities and challenges in this area? Harini Rajendran, Senior Software Engineer, Data Engineering, Confluent answers these questions and shares her experience in this episode. Harini's team builds a cloud scale observability data platform. She is one of the leads of the San Francisco chapter of the Women Who Code Backend Study Group. She is a passionate advocate for Diversity. Equity and Inclusion and animal welfare.

ShowNotes

Harini's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hrajendran/

Harini on WWCode: https://www.womenwhocode.com/sf/about

Learning Resources: 

https://developer.confluent.io/learn-kafka/apache-kafka/events/

https://developer.confluent.io/learn/