
Speaker: Shawn Liu
Software Engineer @Netflix
Shawn Liu is a seasoned Software Engineer at Netflix, where he builds highly available consumer identity systems, manages account lifecycles, and supports data deletion at scale. His work powers large-scale backend infrastructure serving over 300 million members worldwide. He brings deep experience in distributed datastores, event-driven architectures, and high-throughput data pipelines, with a focus on building resilient, high-performance systems.
Session
Netflix’s Strategic Approach To Efficient, Scalable, and Resilient Data Deletion
In large-scale systems, data deletion is a complex challenge that touches infrastructure, reliability, and performance. As data spreads across diverse data stores, ensuring timely and consistent deletion becomes increasingly difficult.