Speaker: Sandhya Narayan
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Expert in Information Security, Compliance, and Risk Management, Previously Technical Program Manager @Netflix, @Adobe, SAP, @eBay, and the Stanford Research Institute
Sandhya Narayan is an accomplished Technical Program Manager (TPM) with extensive experience in leading and managing global, cross-functional teams to deliver complex security initiatives. She is an expert in information security, compliance, and risk management, with a deep understanding of secure product lifecycles and regulatory requirements. Most recently, Sandhya served as a Staff Technical Program Manager at Netflix, where she drove critical security programs and fostered deep cross-team collaboration, including securing generative AI and the adoption of agentic identity and access control. Previously, she held strategic roles at Adobe, SAP, eBay, and the Stanford Research Institute, leading key global security initiatives and strengthening security engagement across organizations.
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Session
The Freeze Paradox: Why Stopping Deployments Doesn't Stop Failures
When systems fail at Netflix and in an environment this complex, they sometimes will, the instinctive response is to freeze deployments.