Saurabh is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, working on the Page Systems team, where they build the page construction framework that powers all Netflix pages at scale. They have over 10 years of experience in search, distributed systems, backend infrastructure, and large-scale applications, specializing in performance optimization, scalability, and high-availability solutions.

Prior to Netflix, they worked at Google, focusing on search ranking and relevance for Play Store Search, improving app discovery through ranking algorithms, personalization, and retrieval optimizations. Their expertise in evaluating large-scale systems, optimizing performance, and driving innovation makes them well-suited to assess technical excellence as an awards judge.