Ben Christensen

San Francisco Bay Area United States

Senior Software Engineer - API Platform at Netflix

Technology / Software / Internet

Ben Christensen is a software engineer on the Netflix API Platform team responsible for fault tolerance, performance, architecture and scale while enabling millions of customers to access the Netflix experience across more than 1,000 different device types. Specializing in Java since the 90s and through years of web and server-side development Ben has gained particular interest and skill in building maintainable, performant, high-volume, high-impact systems. Prior to Netflix, Ben was at Apple making iOS apps and media available on the iTunes store. Open source contributions include Hystrix (https://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix) and RxJava (https://github.com/Netflix/RxJava).