Joseph Lynch is a Principal Software Engineer for Netflix who focuses on building highly-reliable and high-leverage infrastructure across our stateless and stateful services. He led the shift of the Netflix data tier to abstraction, driving resilience through a Data Gateway architecture. He loves building distributed systems and learning the fun and exciting ways that they scale, operate, and break. Having wrangled many large scale distributed systems over the years, he currently spends much of his time building automated verification and fast deployment of every flavor of service at Netflix.