Desmond Vehar
Staff Software Engineer at Netflix
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDesmond Vehar is a Staff Software Engineer in San Diego with 12 years of experience building full-stack systems across backend, frontend, and embedded domains. Currently leading work on Netflix's Content Preview engineering, he has a track record at Yahoo of delivering low-latency recommendation services and revenue-driving features for sports, fantasy, and betting products. He combines hands-on implementation—spanning Java, C++, Python, frontend frameworks and distributed data systems—with service design and CD/infra improvements. Desmond is also a people-first technical leader who has shaped hiring practices, mentored engineers, and driven diversity-focused recruiting initiatives. A former engineering associate and tutor, he brings a practical mix of systems-level rigor and user-focused product thinking that surfaces in both performance-sensitive services and UI-driven features.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
English
Github Skills (7)
sd-card2
iio2
jtag2
firmware1
embedded1
bare-metal1
buildroot1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
vehar/X
Aug 2017 - Jul 2019
Contributions:99 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
vehar/webcam_ding
Jun 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 1 push in 11 months
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