I officially started my journey at Citi as an analyst in the summer through campus recruitment in 2015. Although I had been in the company for training and internship for two months before graduating, I had done projects, and have given a speech before global senior managers using my poor English at that time (now think about it was a disaster at the time), but I still feel excited and curious after I officially joined the company. Because I don't know which direction I will go in the future, I occasionally feel a little anxious and confused.

Four months after I joined the DataSphere Team (the data team of the GSM business at the time), it was the first turning point of my career. Due to certain opportunities, I started to independently research and promote a project migration, the purpose is to use emerging distributed big data technology to replace an expensive third-party database, because the third-party license is about to expire, it is urgent to find an alternative. Facts proved that after a year, this project went online for the first time. At that time, we started from the one person I first started to four people later, we have explored from nothing. Later, we successfully retired the expensive third-party database with an open source big data solution, saving a lot of money for our business. I was happy and shocked. I entered a brand new one technical field and that's what I longed for. I also learned how to drive the project and follow the process at work; I met the best team, and I also benefited a lot from Citi’s support for technological innovation and management.

Up to now, I have been working at Citi for more than 5 years. During this period, I have participated in many trainings provided by company, such as technology, leadership, and corporate engineering culture related like E1/E2. While I continue to learn to recharge myself, I am amazed at how Citi can embrace innovation and diversity. You will find that there is no leader in the entire company who will daily just focus on your work time early or late or the performance appraisal (although it does not mean that it is not important), but they will fully support you to work flexibly and embrace change. This is what I often proudly introduced Citi's culture to my friends, which has never changed.

Looking back on the past few years and the years when I have grown rapidly, I think I am lucky because what I do is what I really like. I did it first, and then found out that I got more; I am very glad that I wasn’t over-ambitious at the first 2 years after graduation, but gradually moved forward towards my goal. I truly appreciated the scenery along the way. It is also one of the most beautiful scenery in my career, and I am still running, never forget the original intention.