Ravi Srinivas Ranganathan — Director of Engineering
Ravi Srinivas Ranganathan is a seasoned organizational leader and an engineer with a passion for building high-performance teams and solving complex, high impact business problems. He is currently a Director of Engineering at Netflix, building out their Ads Platform. In his role, he leads several teams of stunning leaders and engineers having been part of this effort right from day zero and now rapidly expanding it into a cutting-edge advertising ecosystem to become the preeminent destination for CTV ad dollars. With over nearly 15 years of experience in the tech industry, Ravi has worked across a number of domains of Growth and User Acquisition, Globalization, eCommerce and Online Search systems, Marketing Tech and both Buy and Sell-side Ad Tech. His advertising domain knowledge runs deepest and he worked across the OpenWeb, Mobile and Walled Garden eras of advertising and is now excited to be part of the CTV journey. He has a keen eye for fostering talent, driving innovation, and consistently delivering key outcomes. His teams have had $X billions in revenue impact and consistently rank highly in having high trust, candor and a drive for excellence. As an engineer, his core strengths are in distributed systems but has also worked in data engineering, data science and machine learning, product development. His top 5 strengthsfinder attributes that show up in his business leadership : Strategic, Individualization, Ideation, Context and Intellection. His insights profile is a “Reforming Director”. He holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Technology in Instrumentation and Control Systems. Outside of work, Ravi is passionate about reading, learning new languages, heading outdoors and testing his culinary skills on adventurous and unwitting participants.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned AdTech leader with deep expertise in engineering and team management.
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Experience: 15 yrs 2 mos
Skills
- Technical Leadership
- Distributed Systems
- Ad Tech
- Project Management
- Globalization Technologies
- Marketing Technology
- Growth Engineering
- Data Mining
Career Highlights
- Led teams with billions in revenue impact.
- Expert in building innovative ad tech solutions.
- Strong focus on talent development and team performance.
Work Experience
Netflix
Director of Engineering (2 yrs 2 mos)
Senior Engineering Manager (1 yr 10 mos)
Engineering Manager (7 mos)
Engineering Manager (4 yrs 7 mos)
Senior Software Engineer (2 yrs 11 mos)
Microsoft
Software Development Engineer (2 yrs 4 mos)
Software Development Engineer Intern (3 mos)
UCLA
Webmaster at Scholarship Resource Center (11 mos)
Education
MS at UCLA
B. Tech at National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
