Sundaram Ananthanarayanan

Sundaram Ananthanarayanan is a seasoned software engineer with extensive experience in the tech industry, currently serving as a Staff Software Engineer at Netflix since December 2019, focusing on the Data Platform. Prior to this role, Sundaram contributed as a Senior Software Engineer at Uber from May 2016 to October 2021, where critical design and architecture improvements were made for Build Infrastructure systems, including the innovative SubmitQueue scheduling system. Sundaram's earlier experience includes roles at Baidu USA, where work centered on deep learning-based speech recognition, and Twitter as part of Uber's Address Graph Team. Academic contributions include serving as a Course Assistant at Stanford University and conducting research on fault-tolerant computing at the University of Waterloo. Sundaram holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology from Anna University Chennai.