Karthik Sriram Chandrashekar, director, growth data science and engineering, Netflix

Describe your career to date

Since 2015, I have been involved in several critical business initiatives that have led to membership growth from around 60 million members to over 220 million members today. I have led initiatives around new business models - like introducing the Netflix mobile plan in Asia and Africa, and more recently Netflix’s password sharing monetisation experiments.

I have also led several initiatives around improving the Netflix app and product experience to ensure that Netflix remains the world’s largest streaming entertainment provider.

Prior to joining Netflix, I held technology leadership roles in high growth Silicon Valley start-ups, and healthcare tech and international start-ups in India, where I leveraged this expertise in data infrastructure and machine learning to drive revenue growth.

I have strong interdisciplinary expertise across software engineering and data science, and believe in ensuring data and evidence based thinking has a seat at all executive decision making tables. My software engineering expertise especially is a competitive advantage when it comes to execution of data intensive initiatives, ensuring that data proposals don’t just stay as ideas, but are executed efficiently.