Viswanathan Ranganathan
Delivery engineer at Netflix building deployment safeguards for peak global traffic.
Viswanathan Ranganathan builds deployment safety features for Netflix’s infrastructure. He works on the Delivery Engineering team, keeping releases stable across the entire streaming platform. Previously, he designed backend systems to handle billions of daily messages at Atlassian and Twilio.
He focuses on protecting infrastructure during critical traffic surges. His session on Netflix’s Quiet Period mapped out how the company automates production freezes to survive live sports peaks and unexpected cloud outages. Off the clock, he experiments with and contributes to open-source distributed systems.