Catherine Elder
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolCatherine Elder is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale data and experimentation platforms, most recently focused on data quality and observability at Spotify and now at Netflix. She has designed and shipped libraries, services, and CI-integrated staging environments that enabled validation, anomaly detection, and automated certification for tens of thousands of datasets, materially reducing incident impact. Earlier work powering high-throughput A/B testing and dozens of ETL pipelines gives her deep expertise in reliable streaming and batch data systems. Catherine pairs hands-on engineering with teaching and mentoring—writing internal courses and leading hack teams—to drive adoption and measurable product improvements. Based in New York, she blends systems thinking from an Electrical and Computer Engineering background with pragmatic tool-building that scales across organizations.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Electrical and Computer Engineering; Signals and Systems, Bachelor of Science Electrical and Computer Engineering; Signals and Systems at Rice University
English, German
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Github Skills (29)
data-generation10
avro10
dataflow10
sampling10
google-cloud10
parquet10
batch10
scalacheck10
protobuf10
streaming10
beam9
bigquery9
homebrew-formula9
scala9
python9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
catherinejelder/catherinejelder.github.io
Nov 2015 - Mar 2021
blog blog
Contributions:6 PRs, 18 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 5 months
catherinejelder/ratatool
Feb 2019 - Sep 2023
A tool for data sampling, data generation, and data diffing
Contributions:9 pushes, 4 branches, 1 tag in 4 years 7 months
pythondata-samplingdata-generationsamplingdiffing-data
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