Zainab Merchant
Zainab Merchant
TITLE:Director of Engineering
COMPANY:Fivetran
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Zainab Merchant is Director of Platform Engineering at Fivetran, where she leads large-scale orchestration and backend systems powering over 5 million data syncs per day. With 18 years of experience in distributed data infrastructure, she specializes in building resilient, high-throughput platforms and driving architectural strategy at scale.
TALK
Orchestrating Data Pipelines at Scale with Temporal at Fivetran
ABSTRACT
In this session, we’ll share how Fivetran runs its ETL pipelines using Temporal workflows. We’ll walk through our journey of migrating existing workloads onto Temporal, highlight the key challenges we faced, and share the lessons we learned along the way. Attendees will gain practical insights into adopting Temporal for large-scale data platforms