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Speakers

Xinli Shang

Employers on the program

  1. 2021–2026Uber3 talks
Events7
Conferences3
Talks9
Years active2019–2026
Miles between events3,2713 in-person events · 2 countries

The year around now

Talks in the past 12 months and announced talks ahead, one row per conference, January to December. Hover a mark for the talk.

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Held in the past 12 months Next 12 months Today, Nov 9, 2026

Appearances by year

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  • Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon)
  • OpenXData
  • PrestoCon

Talks

DateEventConferenceRoleTitleLinks
Apr 29, 2026OpenXData 2026 (April)OpenXDataspeakerScalable Table Services @Uber
as Uber
Table services—including Compaction, Cleaning, and Clustering—are critical to balancing ingestion latency with query performance. In this talk, we share our…Show less

Table services—including Compaction, Cleaning, and Clustering—are critical to balancing ingestion latency with query performance. In this talk, we share our learnings from operating these services at Uber scale.

Video
Oct 7, 2023Community Over Code North America 2023Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon)speakerFast Copy-On-Write within Apache Parquet for Data Lakehouse ACID Upserts
as Uber
Efficient table ACID upsert is essential for today’s LakeHouse. Important use cases, such as GDPR Right to be Forgotten (also known as Data Erasure) and Change…Show less

Efficient table ACID upsert is essential for today’s LakeHouse. Important use cases, such as GDPR Right to be Forgotten (also known as Data Erasure) and Change Data Capture (CDC), rely heavily on it. While Apache DeltaLake, Iceberg, and Hudi are widely adopted for these use cases, the slowness of up

Oct 3, 2022ApacheCon North America 2022Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon)speakerFrom Column-Level to Cell-Level: Toward Finer-Grained Access Control with Apache Parquet

New challenges emerge to protect the privacy of sensitive information in the big data industry.

Slides
Oct 3, 2022ApacheCon North America 2022Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon)speakerLarge scale migration to Parquet in Uber

Parquet is the core file format in Uber's big data stack.

Slides
Dec 9, 2021PrestoCon 2021PrestoConspeakerSpeed Up Presto Reading with Paquet Column Indexes
as Uber
Data analytic tables in the big data ecosystem are usually large and some of them can reach petabytes in size. Presto as a fast query engine needs to be…Show less

Data analytic tables in the big data ecosystem are usually large and some of them can reach petabytes in size. Presto as a fast query engine needs to be intelligent to skip reading unnecessary data based on filters. In addition to the existing filtering to skip partitions, files, and row groups, Apa

Aug 6, 2021ApacheCon Asia 2021Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon)speakerBig Data Format at Uber Data Infra
Sep 29, 2020ApacheCon @Home 2020Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon)speakerBig Data File Format Cost Efficiency - Millions of Dollars DealVideo
Sep 29, 2020ApacheCon @Home 2020Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon)speakerColumn encryption & Data Masking in Parquet - Protecting data at the lowest layerVideo
Sep 9, 2019ApacheCon North America 2019Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon)speakerSchema-Managed Big Data Column Access Control and Use Cases

Frequent co-speakers

SpeakerShared eventsShared talksLast together
Timothy Spann4—2023
Pavi Subenderan332021
David Kjerrumgaard3—2023
Julian Hyde3—2023
Uma Maheswara Rao Gangumalla3—2023
Patrick McFadin3—2022
Mohammad Islam222022
Chen Liang212021
Dipankar Mazumdar2—2026
Ethan Guo2—2026
Tim Meehan2—2026
Vinoth Chandar2—2026
Benjamin Teke2—2023
Branimir Lambov2—2023
Christophe Bornet2—2023

Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.