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Works on data infrastructure for Iterable, using Elasticsearch to support analytics and transaction workloads and Scala and functional programming for clearer reasoning about large systems. Describes batching and event-triggered flows that send marketing emails at tens of millions scale — current campaigns around 30 million emails with plans pushing toward 70–100 million per day — and the practical challenges of query latency, transaction throughput, and testing at that scale.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:19What are some engineering issues you deal with?
3. 0:49What are some scaling issues you deal with?
4. 3:14How has Functional Programming been important to you?
5. 4:26What do you love about the scale by the bay conference?

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