Meena Chokkalingam

Meena Chokkalingam is a Principal Software Engineer at Zillow, where she leads data platform initiatives spanning the company's portfolio of brands. Her focus is domain modeling and the semantic layer — the unglamorous work of getting data producers and consumers to agree on shared definitions, entity boundaries, and vocabulary — the semantic foundation that no governance tool can generate on its own. She believes the hardest problems in data aren't solved with better pipelines — they're solved with better shared language.