Summary
Sudhir Tonse is a seasoned engineering leader with 14+ years building and scaling high-performance teams and platforms across Netflix, Uber, DoorDash and now Galileo, specializing in big data, AI/ML and cloud-native architectures. He has led organizations of 100+ engineers through hyper-growth and major transitions—DVD to streaming and on‑prem to cloud at Netflix, and pre-IPO to scale at Uber and DoorDash—while managing AOPs, vendor contracts and distributed teams across the US, Europe and India. His teams have operated at extreme scale (trillions of messages/day, petabytes of data, millions of inferences/sec) and delivered fault-tolerant, distributed systems for personalization, experimentation and marketplace intelligence. An active OSS steward and frequent conference speaker, he open-sourced key Netflix platform projects and advises startups and VCs on product and platform strategy. Known for combining pragmatic roadmapping with hands-on technical judgment, he also mentors engineering leaders through long-running coaching engagements and corporate advisory boards.
13 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
MS Electronic Commerce Electronics Computer Science, MS Electronic Commerce Electronics Computer Science at National University
B.E. (Electronic & Communication) Electronics Computer Science, B.E. (Electronic & Communication) Electronics Computer Science at Malnad College of Engineering