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Anirudh Mendiratta

Software Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States11 yrs 2 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led development of Netflix's live streaming backend.
  • Pioneered load-shedding service for playback.
  • Designed observability platform for live video.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer in the Streaming industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Live StreamingCloud ComputingAmazon Web Services (aws)

Other Skills

Distributed SystemsAmazon DynamodbAmazon KinesisAmazon SQSJavaGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)NoSQLStoragePostgreSQLPythonSQLC++Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)Google BigQueryTeaching

Experience

11 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 11 mos
Current Experience

Netflix

2 roles

Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Sep 2024Present · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Evolving live streaming on Netflix from an MVP to a stable product supporting live events at massive scale such as the Mike Tyson/Jake Paul boxing match and NFL Christmas Day 2024 games, resulting in significant revenue and subscriber growth. Building the next generation of client-server transport for Netflix on TV, mobile and web devices to improve Quality of Experience and member joy.
Live StreamingDistributed SystemsCloud ComputingAmazon Web Services (AWS)

Senior Software Engineer

May 2022Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • As part of this role, I led playback backend teams for building live streaming on Netflix from 0 to 1. I pioneered service-level prioritized load-shedding for playback services, now adopted across other backend services at Netflix to enable handling spiky traffic for live or high profile titles without increasing cloud costs, resulting in significant reduction in missed streams.
Live StreamingAmazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon

Software Development Engineer II

Nov 2019May 2022 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Seattle, Washington

  • Backend Software Engineer for live video observability at Prime Video
  • I was the first engineer on this team and led design and development of an observability platform for live video.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Amazon Dynamodb

Fubotv

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Dec 2018Nov 2019 · 11 mos · New York, New York

  • Backend Software Engineer for high throughput, low latency services for live and on demand video streaming including video ingest service (ingesting 1.2 GB/s), video delivery service (serving 10k-50k requests/sec), video storage and deletion services for tens of petabytes of data
  • Greenfield projects:
  • Developed and deployed self-managed low latency SSD backed blob storage origin with significantly better average and long-tail latency than off-the-shelf cloud storage
  • Developed efficient HLS playlist validating service using ffmpeg
  • Designed and developed microservices for automated DVR manifest generation, manifest
  • validation, long-term video chunk storage and deletion of petabytes of video data
  • Developed pipeline for streaming CDN logs into BigQuery and generating real-time metrics & alerts based on CDN logs

Software Engineer

Aug 2017Dec 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos · New York, New York

Mathworks

Software Engineer

Feb 2015Aug 2017 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Greater Boston

  • Developed audio, video, image and scientific file I/O functionality for MATLAB

Education

Carnegie Mellon University

Master of Science (MS) — Mechanical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Bachelor of Technology (BTech) — Engineering Physics

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