Summary
Xiaoxue Duan is a Senior Data Engineer in Redwood City with nine years of experience building scalable data warehouses, ETL pipelines, and real-time streaming systems across ad tech and enterprise domains. She combines strong statistical training (MS in Statistics) and a PhD background with hands-on expertise in Python, Java, SQL, Airflow, Kafka Streams, Redshift, AWS/GCP and Hadoop to cut ETL runtime, automate reporting, and improve data quality. At PlatformQ she redesigned pipelines to reduce runtime by over 60% and launched a 28-dashboard self-service reporting platform; at CBRE she automated a metric that reduced analysis time from days to minutes and generated $650k in annual savings. Now at Walmart Global Tech she focuses on real-time Java/Spring Boot and Kafka Streams solutions for ad tech while still contributing Python batch processing work. Colleagues rely on her for pragmatic pipeline improvements that save operational hours and for translating complex analytics into usable business tools.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Tourism management, Master's degree Tourism management at East China Normal University
Bachelor's degree Tourism, Bachelor's degree Tourism at Shanghai University of International Business and Economics
Master's degree Statistics, Master's degree Statistics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Tourism and Travel Services Management, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Tourism and Travel Services Management at Zhejiang University
English, Chinese