Aarti Gupta

Speaker: Aarti Gupta

Staff Engineer @Netflix

Aarti Gupta is a Staff Engineer with over 16 years of experience building distributed systems and durable platform architectures. At Netflix, she focuses on evolving large-scale internal systems into extensible domain platforms that can support new business areas without sacrificing reliability or maintainability.

Driven by a strategic, extensibility-first mindset, she is passionate about building foundational platforms explicitly designed for scale and adaptability. She has led work across complex  zero-downtime migrations for mission-critical workflows, GraphQL schema design, and foundational API patterns, with an emphasis on evolvability, operational excellence, and real-world reliability constraints. Aarti holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California.

Session

Stop Fighting the Remodel: API Design for Models That Outgrew Their Boundaries

Every domain model has a breaking point. At Netflix, ours arrived all at once—Ads, Games, Live events, and entirely new kinds of content. Each pulled the core entities in different, sometimes contradictory directions.

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