Summary
Sumukh Shivaprakash is an experienced engineering leader with 10 years building cloud backend infrastructure and distributed systems, now leading content workflow platform efforts at Netflix after a long tenure as a Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft. He has architected and shipped high-availability services and latency-critical data paths—designing replicators, quorum managers, transaction managers, and log recovery engines that saved millions by optimizing storage and resiliency across Azure Service Fabric. Sumukh pairs product-focused roadmapping with hands-on technical direction, driving Envoy adoption and virtualization strategies to boost engineering efficiency and fault tolerance. Based in Sunnyvale, he blends deep systems expertise with a track record of mentoring teams, emphasizing test-driven development and customer-centric solutions.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech, Information Technology, B.Tech, Information Technology at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
MS, Computer Engineering, MS, Computer Engineering at University of Florida