Prasanna Padmanabhan

Prasanna Padmanabhan

Engineering Manager | Netflix

Prasanna Padmanabhan leads the ML infrastructure for Recommendations team at Netflix. His primary focus is to make it easy for Researchers to innovate faster and reduce the time it takes from ideation to production. His main challenge is to scale ML in heterogeneous language environments across several domains and at all stages of a model lifecycle, including ad-hoc exploration, preparing training data, model development, and robust production deployment. In the past, he has built high scale distributed data systems that leverages both batch and stream processing.