Suudhan Rangarajan

CEO

San Jose, California, United States18 yrs 11 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building high-performance engineering teams.
Strong background in API architecture and orchestration.
Passionate about leveraging technology for user experience.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with a focus on B2C streaming services.

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ProgrammingSoftware DevelopmentMobile ApplicationsProduct ManagementSoftware EngineeringCC++AlgorithmsAndroidDistributed SystemsLinuxFlashMultithreadingMobile DevicesPython

About

I love to build and develop high performance teams in order to accomplish amazing amounts of important work. My management philosophy can be summed up as - find amazing opportunities, align resources, remove roadblocks, empower/grow people, and enable team to successful outcomes. Personally, I am curious by nature and love to keep a tab on various technologies and businesses.

Experience

18 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

6 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

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Current Experience

Openai

Member of Technical Staff

Apr 2026 – Present · 0 mo

chatGPT Velocity

Netflix

4 roles

Engineering Manager - Member Experience API

Apr 2024 – Apr 2026 · 2 yrs

We are the API layer for all Member Experience right from the moment a customer created an account till they hit playback.
I manage three sub-teams
The API Platform team is responsible for the API architectures (based on GraphQL, REST and websockets) and scale.
The API Orchestration team manages all communication from the API to dozens of mid-tier domain services. This team build capabilities to enable cross-domain content to be served as part of Member Experience
The API Capabilities team which build next-generation Server Driven UI (SDUI) and client-server interaction capabilities to unlock innovation velocity and develop personalized and contextual Netflix UI experiences

Engineering Manager - Recommendation Systems

Aug 2023 – May 2024 · 9 mos

I manage the Recommendation Systems team at Netflix, responsible for building infrastructure and services to deliver personalized discovery experience throughout the Netflix product.

Engineering Manager - Playback API

Promoted

Feb 2020 – Jul 2023 · 3 yrs 5 mos

I manage the Playback Lifecycle Systems team at Netflix. We write API orchestration layers which facilitates the entire Netflix Playback Experience from Start to Stop

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2014 – Feb 2020 · 5 yrs 4 mos

I work as a distributed services engineer on the Playback API team responsible for orchestrating the Playback Lifecycle and ensuring that best playback experience is delivered for millions of Netflix customers worldwide