Industry Rising Star 2023: Meenakshi Jindal
Meenakshi Jindal, Netflix Inc, Los Gatos
Nominated by: Raghuvardhan Reddy Suram
Meenakshi Jindal, a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with over 15 years of global industrial experience, is renowned for her exceptional expertise in designing large-scale distributed systems across diverse industries including banking, insurance, travel, and media. Currently serving as a Staff Software Engineer at Netflix, she leads pioneering advancements in digital content management and discovery for global media productions. Prior to her current role, she worked for many distinguished international organizations including the Royal Bank of Scotland, Expedia, Teradata, and Mitchell International. She graduated from Delhi University, where she received the prestigious N. S. Khare Award for academic excellence. Her passion for technology drove her to earn a Master’s degree in Computer Applications from SNDT Women’s University, India, and later pursue a second Master’s in Information Systems and Management at Coleman University, California. She is a certified Associate AWS Solution Architect and possesses specialization in architecting cloud-distributed systems. Her innovative work has been published and presented in various technical forums and prestigious global conferences
Honors and Recognition
- IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Senior Member
- SMPTE (Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers) Member
- Editor of Computer Science FeedForward Magazine of IEEE Region 6, SCV
- Papers Reviewer for Computer Science FeedForward Magazine Region 6, SCV
- Speaker at the Women In Tech Global Conference (https://www.womentech.net/speaker/Meenakshi/Jindal/86038)
- Speaker in QCon (Software Engineering Conference) on Distributed System Challenges (https://qconnewyork.com/speakers/meenakshijindal)
- The speaker in Elasticsearch community meetup for Distributed database sharding strategies (https://community.elastic.co/events/details/elastic-san-francisco-presents-elastic-san-francisco-meetup-with-netflix/)
- Engineering excellence award, Mitchell International, 2017
- MVP (Most Valuable Player) award, Mitchell International, 2017
Publications
- https://netflixtechblog.com/scaling-media-machine-learning-at-netflix-f19b400243
- https://netflixtechblog.com/data-ingestion-pipeline-with-operation-management-3c5c638740a8
- https://netflixtechblog.com/scalable-annotation-service-marken-f5ba9266d428
- https://netflixtechblog.com/data-reprocessing-pipeline-in-asset-management-platform-netflix-46fe225c35c9
- https://netflixtechblog.com/elasticsearch-indexing-strategy-in-asset-management-platform-amp-99332231e541