Benjamin Fedorka is an engineer on Netflix’s Java Platform, focused on IPC ergonomics and resilience. With the launch of live programming, Benjamin has focused on helping teams prepare their clusters to entertain the world during these massive events. Benjamin has over ten years of engineering experience, primarily focused on platform engineering, and is passionate about enabling teams to solve new challenges instead of toiling on common problems.

Together with Anirudh Mendiratta, Benjamin pioneered service-level prioritized load shedding allowing Netflix to handle live events at unprecedented scale.