About Me

Ravi Srinivas Ranganathan is a seasoned organizational leader and an engineer with a passion for building high-performance teams and solving complex, high impact business problems.

He is a Director of Engineering at Netflix, building out their Ads Platform. In his role, he leads several teams of stunning leaders and engineers. Having been part of this effort right from day zero and he is working on rapidly expanding it into a cutting-edge advertising ecosystem and make it the preeminent destination for CTV ad dollars.

With over nearly 15 years of experience in the tech industry, Ravi has worked across a number of domains of Growth and User Acquisition, Globalization, eCommerce and Online Search systems, Marketing Tech and both Buy and Sell-side Ad Tech. His advertising domain knowledge runs deepest and he worked across the OpenWeb, Mobile and Walled Garden eras of advertising and is now excited to be part of the CTV journey.

He has a keen eye for fostering talent, driving innovation, and consistently delivering key outcomes. His teams have had incredible revenue impact ranging in $X billions. They also consistently rank highly in surveys for trust, candor and a shared drive for excellence. As an engineer, his core strengths are in distributed systems but has also worked in data engineering, data science and machine learning, product development.

He holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science from University of California, Los Angeles and a Bachelor of Technology in Instrumentation and Control Systems from National Institute of Technology, Trichy.

Outside of work, Ravi is passionate about reading, learning new languages, heading outdoors and testing his culinary skills on adventurous and unwitting participants.