Blanca works as an independent data consultant. Most recently she was a lead analytics engineer at the Berlin-based fintech startup topi. She focused on building their data analytics platform from the ground up. She spent 7 years at the BBC, contributing to the Data Platform team, where she built highly scalable data ingestion pipelines and led teams improving access to data in the data warehouse and data visualisation. Prior to the BBC, she held a variety of roles: web applications development, mobile prototyping and working on a content management system, as well as writing high throughput APIs. In her free time, she loves travelling, reading, swimming, and cooking. She enjoys learning new hobbies such as clothes making, drawing or languages. She grew up in Spain and has also lived in the United States and Australia. She is currently based in London, UK.