Shilpa Motukuri

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San Francisco, California, United States19 yrs 1 mo experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in scaling engineering organizations and teams.
  • Strong advocate for women in technology.
  • Proven track record in delivering high-quality engineering solutions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Senior Engineering Leader in the Media and Entertainment industry, specializing in scalable cloud solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software Engineering Leadership And ManagementCloud And Distributed SystemsSoftware Engineering Excellence

Other Skills

StrategyHigh-Performance teamsAWSJavaReactNode.jsMicroservicesSoftware Design and ImplementationReduxgRPCSpring MVCCSS3HTML5MySQLElasticSearch

About

I’m a Senior Engineering Leader with a strong track record of scaling organizations, developing high-performing distributed teams, and delivering platforms and products that accelerate business growth. I specialize in aligning technical strategy with company vision, turning complex engineering problems into scalable, customer-driven solutions. I’ve led multi-year, cross-functional initiatives that improved platform resilience, streamlined engineering operations, and unlocked new product capabilities. Known for my ability to influence across engineering, product, design, and executive leadership, I drive clarity in ambiguous environments and deliver mission-critical results while maintaining a high bar for quality and technical excellence. As a people-first leader, I invest deeply in talent development, organizational health, and creating inclusive, high-trust cultures. I’m also committed to advancing women in technology. As the leader of Elevate@Netflix, I’ve launched workshops, peer-coaching programs, and mentorship initiatives that support and grow the next generation of women engineering leaders. Specialties: Engineering Leadership & Strategy, Organizational Scaling, Distributed Systems, Cloud Platforms (AWS), Technical Architecture, High-Performance Teams, Platform Reliability, Cross-Functional Leadership, Software Engineering Excellence

Experience

19 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
6 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
14 yrs 1 mo
Current Experience

Netflix

4 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Jul 2022Present · 3 yrs 10 mos

  • I lead the Studio Foundations engineering organization at Netflix, where we build scalable platforms and data solutions that power our global content operations. Our work supports hundreds of workflows across the pitch-to-play pipeline — accelerating how content is created, managed, and delivered.
  • My teams are responsible for foundational platforms across content data (including production resources and scripts), access management, and content security. These systems enable both internal and partner workflows across the content creation pipeline, and ensure the availability of high-integrity metadata that drives the member experience.
  • Through our work, we unlock velocity and enable global storytelling.
Software Engineering Leadership and ManagementStrategyHigh-Performance teamsAWSJavaReact+4

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Nov 2016Jun 2022 · 5 yrs 7 mos

  • I led the Partner Workforce Management and UI Infrastructure teams to build applications that enable Netflix Content teams to manage partner relationships and onboard external workforce into the Netflix ecosystem.
  • As part of the UI Infrastructure team, we built core UI frameworks, platform components, and reusable solutions used across 100+ Content applications. Notable contributions include scalable search experiences, large-entity data grids, and the Studio Media Player — a playback tool for dailies, early cuts, and proxies used in workflows like synopsis creation, subtitles/dubs, and early-stage QC.
  • I was responsible for end-to-end ownership across design, architecture, and delivery, and partnered closely with more than 20 cross-organizational teams across product, engineering, and design. Our solutions leveraged modern cloud infrastructure to meet performance, scalability, and reliability goals.
  • Technologies: React, Redux, Node.js, Java, gRPC, Spring MVC, CSS3, HTML5
ReactReduxNode.jsJavagRPCSpring MVC+4

Sr. Software Engineer/ Architect

Jan 2016Jul 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Build Innovative solutions to manage Post Production workflows for Netflix Originals.
  • Worked with User Experience(UX) and other User Interface(UI) engineers to build the reusable components that are used for various applications in Content Platform team.
  • Worked on Innovative cloud based solutions at Netflix to acquire large number of production assets from Post houses. Solved interesting challenges with huge file transfers over the wire
  • Built web portals and Application Programming Interfaces(APIs) to bring in Content metadata and Digital asset metadata from content providers and Digital encoding houses worldwide. Technology stack - React, Node.js, Java, Spring MVC, MySQL, ElasticSearch, AWS.
  • Responsible for high scalability, availability, security, maintainability and internalization due to international expansion.
  • Deliver solutions leveraging the AWS cloud infrastructure to meet the product requirements.
ReactNode.jsJavaSpring MVCMySQLElasticSearch+3

Sr. Software Engineer

Feb 2012Dec 2015 · 3 yrs 10 mos

  • Worked on Content Engineering to develop a suite of tools to manage movie rights, metadata (drives the appearance of our content on the service), asset delivery and scheduling, merchandising requirements, etc.
  • Worked on tools to build the world's deepest catalog of data about movies and TV shows, and manage the what/where/when/how aspect of all titles appearing on our service.
  • Technology stack - Backbone, Node.js, Java, Grails, MySQL, AWS
BackboneNode.jsJavaGrailsMySQLAWS+2

Cisco

3 roles

Technical Leader

Sep 2011Jan 2012 · 4 mos

Software Engineer

Jun 2009Sep 2011 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Intern

Jun 2008May 2009 · 11 mos

  • Web Developer. Developed tools for the IOS Commercial markets.

Infosys technologies ltd

2 roles

Software Engineer

Jun 2006Jul 2007 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Developed various banking related projects using J2EE Struts framework. HTML, JS, DHTML and AJAX are the UI technologies used. Back-end constitutes Oracle or MySQL databases

Software Engineer

Jan 2006Jan 2007 · 1 yr

Education

Stanford University Graduate School of Business

Executive Education — Stanford LEAD

Jan 2022Jan 2023

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Bachelors — Electronics And Communications

San José State University

Masters — Software Engineering

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