Sergey Fedorov
Company: Netflix
Early engineer of the Open Connect — team that has built a Netflix CDN that delivers 13% of the world Internet traffic. After spending years building monitoring and data analysis systems for video traffic, Sergey now focuses on improving all types of Netflix Internet communications to achieve better latency, reliability and control over client-server communications. Strong advocate of observability approach to engineering and making data-driven decisions.
The author and maintainer of FAST.com — one of the most popular Internet speed tests.
Finding actionable signals in loosely controlled environments is what keeps Sergey awake, much better than caffeine. This might also explain why outside of work he can be seen playing ice hockey, brewing beer, or exploring exotic travel destinations.
