Apr 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

Apr 2023 – Dec 2025 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Los Gatos, California, United States · Hybrid

• I lead Platform Networking and Infra Management teams that power the largest streaming network - Netflix.I am also responsible for Cloud scalability of Live Events across the entire fleet with focus on scaling techniques, capacity management, traffic engineering, DDoS mitigation and more. My teams are responsible for designing, building and operating the network and abstracting infrastructure resources with following focus areas -
• Traffic Engineering
• End to end traffic management, region failover and traffic shaping for effective scaling for global Live events and Streaming.
• Cloud Network Engineering
• The Cloud Network Engineering team’s goal is to create network architectures that can readily evolve with the needs of our product services and initiatives.
• Network Services and Insights
• The Network Services & Insights team is focused on the Network-as-a-Service experience - a high-level, transparent, elastic connectivity abstraction relied upon by other engineers.
• Cloud Gateway
• Cloud Gateway owns Netflix’s flagship open-source API Gateway Zuul. This team is responsible for designing, developing, and operating Edge Gateways for steaming and studio applications that are the front door for all control plane traffic coming into the cloud and help ensure 200+ millions of members have a fast, reliable, and secure streaming experience.
• Service Networking
• The Service Networking team is focused on creating a consistent, seamless, secure, and adaptive infrastructure for internal service discovery and communication across Netflix.
• Infra Management
• End to End cloud infrastructure resource management and orchestration to democratize the Platform for providers and consumers
• I also serve on eBPF Foundation Board representing Netflix, a Platinum member of the foundation
• https://ebpf.foundation/board/

Jan 2023 – Apr 2023 · 3 mos

• Shweta Saraf is Head of Network Modernization at Equinix. In her role, she is transforming
• one of the largest network’s on the planet by driving efforts around network disaggregation,
• network efficiency and network intelligence with focus on open source.

Jan 2022 – Feb 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Leading Metal and Network Edge engineering teams. #inserviceto and on a mission to delight our customers with simplifying access and scaling of network and compute services seamlessly at the Edge.

Oct 2020 – Jan 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Leading Metal Product Engineering team. Our mission is to build and deliver physical infrastructure at software speed. Some of the cool things we do.
• Process and respond to millions of API requests every day for our baremetal cloud serving in 27+ metros and growing across the world
• Deliver delightful customer experiences and make integrations for developers & Partners smoother at Metal
• Build and operate a SDN controller that can orchestrate network state for thousands of network devices and deliver cloud network services and enable hybrid cloud networking features for our customers.
• Build and operate a GoLang based distributed system for billing that can handle billions of $ revenue billed using open source billing engine, Kill Bill
• Architect and build cloud control plane for asset management, enrollment services for enabling automated, efficient datacenter operations.

Aug 2022 – Aug 2023 · 1 yr

Jan 2020 – Oct 2020 · 9 mos · New York

• Leading teams which are responsible for cloud API, UI, UX, Billing and cloud control plane.

Feb 2018 – Feb 2025 · 7 yrs

Jan 2018 – Jun 2021 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Greater Boston

Aug 2017 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Delivering flexible, reliable and high performance software defined network products and infrastructure enabling customers to deploy production applications in a simple, scalable and secure way.
• Leading a team of ~60+ engineers , 5 managers Delivered Virtual Private Cloud(VPC), Load Balancers as a Service, Kubernetes Platform, Firewalls, IPAM, Network Monitoring and Performance.
• https://www.digitalocean.com/products/networking/

Jun 2016 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Reinventing Cloud Networking for millions of droplets. Leading Software Networking and Storage teams delivering cloud infrastructure software for DO's customers.

Jan 2015 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Led a team of 20 high performing engineers to deliver the Cisco Enterprise SDN Controller - APIC-EM, focusing on features like Inventory, Discovery, Security, and Policy.
• Grew the team from 3 to 20 members by hiring top talent with global teams.
• Mentored team members with 1:1 time and constructive feedback, enabling their career growth.
• . Received YWCA Emerging Leader Award for 2016

Sep 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Led a team of 40+ employees and contractors in delivering real-time location features, indoor GPS, bluetooth proximity services, and wireless connectivity and security at Cisco.
• Spearheaded Agile Transformation for Wireless, transitioning CMX teams from Waterfall to high-performing Agile teams.

Jul 2013 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos

Jun 2007 – Sep 2013 · 6 yrs 3 mos

• Led a team of 4 to deliver Wireless Security features - Wireless Intrusion Prevention, automatically containing rogue devices for enhanced security. for the Wireless Portfolio.
• Improved user experience by reducing configuration clicks from 30 to 4 with a Wireless Security Wizard