Meenakshi Jindal

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Los Gatos, California, United States18 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

20+ years in engineering leadership roles.
Expert in distributed systems and media platforms.
Proven track record in AI-powered media services.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned Engineering Leader in Media and Software sectors, specializing in distributed systems and AI infrastructure.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsMedia AiLarge Scale Development

Other Skills

Workflow ManagementEngineering LeadershipTechnical LiaisonStakeholder ManagementMedia Management PlatformData EngineeringDigital Asset ManagementElasticSearchService-Oriented Architecture (SOA)Java Enterprise EditionSpringHibernateSoftware DevelopmentJavaCore Java

About

Seasoned Engineering Leader with 20+ years of experience driving platform strategy and steering the evolution of high-scale distributed systems, AI-powered media services, and global distribution ecosystems. Recognized for aligning technology roadmaps with business outcomes, building high-velocity teams, and delivering robust platforms that solve complex, enterprise-wide challenges. Pioneered the 0→1 incubation of mission-critical media platforms, transforming raw assets and ML metadata into a unified ecosystem that powers global studio operations.

Experience

18 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

8 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Netflix

Engineering Technical Leader

Apr 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 1 mo · United States · On-site

Strategized and scaled a graph-based Media Asset Management (MAM) platform, establishing a single source of truth for asset metadata and relationships while eliminating legacy silos.
Operationalized unified AI/ML orchestration and paved-path platforms, abstracting infrastructure complexity to accelerate experimentation and reduce model deployment cycles from months to days.
Delivered a Media Intelligence interface for global discovery, mapping temporal AI insights to editorial workflows; eliminated manual "needle-in-the-haystack" searches and reduced discovery time from hours to seconds.
Spearheaded a high-throughput, event-driven Media Compute framework, ensuring reliable orchestration for global media distribution and processing workflows.
Collaborated with Data Engineering to establish a Media Data Lake, driving the standardization of metadata and content formatting to provide scalable, ML-ready datasets for downstream AI applications.
Embedded security and governance into the platform core, incorporating forensic watermarking and automated auditing to ensure end-to-end traceability across the content lifecycle.
Drove measurable business impact, including multi-million dollar OpEx savings through intelligent archiving and infrastructure optimization.
Led and mentored high-velocity engineering team, fostering technical leadership and driving cross-functional alignment to support global scale.

Distributed SystemsWorkflow ManagementEngineering LeadershipTechnical LiaisonMedia AIStakeholder Management+1

Mitchell international

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2015 – Apr 2018 · 2 yrs 9 mos · San Diego County, CA

Spearheaded the Cloud-Native Transformation, migrating legacy JBoss monoliths to a distributed microservices architecture to improve deployment velocity and fault tolerance.
Architected an enterprise Elasticsearch platform, achieving 10x query performance gains and integrating advanced geo-spatial indexing for insurance-scale datasets.

Workflow ManagementDigital Asset ManagementDistributed SystemsElasticSearchService-Oriented Architecture (SOA)Large Scale Development

Teradata

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2014 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Diego County, CA

Enhanced Teradata Backup and Archive (BAR) utility using Core Java, applying OOAD principles and design patterns to deliver scalable, high-performance improvements.
Delivered sprint commitments in an Agile TDD environment while strengthening code quality and test coverage using JUnit, EasyMock, and automated testing frameworks.

Expedia

Lead Engineer

Aug 2012 – Feb 2013 · 6 mos · Gurgaon

Led cross-functional collaboration across engineering teams in the US, India, China, and Europe to gather requirements, define product design, and drive end-to-end implementation and integration of the Expedia Car platform with a new GDS, while mentoring teams and aligning with program and QA leadership to ensure high-quality global delivery.

Royal bank of scotland group

2 roles

Technical Lead

Promoted

Aug 2011 – Jul 2012 · 11 mos

Directed the design and implementation of a global portal platform enabling a new electronic channel for diverse banking services based on SOA architecture, managing a distributed engineering team. Mentored engineers, developed core technical design documents, and coordinated Test-driven development efforts while driving performance optimization and delivery excellence.

Software Engineer

May 2009 – Jul 2011 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Gathered requirements from stakeholders and legacy systems to design a Business Intelligence OLAP repository, authoring technical design documents.
Prototype the technology stack and architecture for the OLAP application.
Developed and implemented user interfaces and core services, while optimizing performance and providing production support.

Ozastech pvt ltd

Software Enginner

Sep 2007 – Apr 2009 · 1 yr 7 mos · Noida

Contributed to the design and implementation of a white-label solution for the RetailAdmin module of the Currenex FX Trading platform, supporting account management and real-time reporting.
Developed and maintained both user interface components and core backend services.

Amdocs

Subject Matter Expert

Aug 2006 – Aug 2007 · 1 yr

Analyzed and customized the Workforce Management module of the Amdocs B/OSS platform to meet client-specific requirements.
Designed and implemented integration with external legacy systems, including data mapping and performance optimization.