Vinay Chella is an Engineering Leader at DoorDash, where he leads the Storage and Streaming Infrastructure organization that powers mission-critical systems across the marketplace. He focuses on building high-leverage, large-scale data platforms, having previously led Netflix’s Online Data Stores and co-invented the Data Gateway platform that supported the majority of Netflix’s online datastore traffic. A long-time Apache Cassandra committer, he has been actively engaged in the community while advancing distributed data systems at scale. At DoorDash, he is shaping the next generation of storage and streaming abstractions through initiatives like Taulu and EventBus, unified data and streaming access layers that enable developers to scale with confidence. He thrives in ambiguous problem spaces, driving rapid innovation and pioneering resilient platforms that balance cost, scale, and velocity.