Mallika Rao

About Mallika Rao

I’m an engineering leader with over 15 years of experience building and scaling distributed systems, search, and platform infrastructure — and over 7 years leading high-impact teams through hypergrowth, migrations, and cultural transformation.At Netflix, I lead Content Systems, a foundational platform that powers how Netflix creates, manages, and serves content globally. I kicked off several key initiatives at Metadata Modeling and Serving layers, candidate recommendation and catalog slicing layers, from idea to execution, building the backbone of data interoperability across product and ML workflows. Before Netflix, I led Search Infrastructure at Twitter, scaling systems that handled trillions of documents and integrating ML-driven relevance and evaluation pipelines. At Walmart, I guided Rewards infrastructure modernization, building the foundation for AI-driven personalization.My focus now is on leading platform and AI-infrastructure teams that sit at the heart of intelligent systems — building reliable foundations for model training, inference, and evaluation while scaling the people and orgs behind them.If you’re solving problems at the scale of platform evolution, AI enablement, or leadership growth, I’d love to connect and trade notes.

Experience

1. Engineering Manager, Content Systems

   Netflix

   Oct 2023 — Present · Los Gatos, CA, US

   Content Systems works at the intersection of product and content to help create the best content experience for each member and creator around the world. The team builds and operates online and offline systems to serve content experiences to members, decide a title’s eligibility on the product, enable configurability, and continuously monitor every title’s experience on Netflix.

Education

• North Carolina State University

  Masters, Computer Science

  2009 — 2011

• Visveswaraya Technological University

  Bachelors, Computer Science

  2005 — 2009

Skills

• Software Engineering
• Networking
• Embedded C
• Embedded Systems
• Data Center
• Unix
• Studio Photography
• Algorithms
• Data Structures
• Vmware Esx
• C
• Programming
• Switches
• Linux
• Pcie
• Operating Systems
• Routing Protocols
• Gnu Debugger
• Firmware
• Cisco Technologies
• Ethernet
• Routing
• User Space Linux Networking Tools
• Internet Protocol Suite (Tcp/Ip)
• C++
• Virtualization
• Shell Scripting
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Software Development
• Python
• Embedded Linux
• Tcp/Ip
• Digital Photography
• Wireshark