Katharina Probst is an Engineering Director at Netflix, where she is responsible for the availability and reliability of the streaming service used by more than 100 million people around the world. She previously led the API team at Netflix.

Prior to joining Netflix, she was in the cloud computing team at Google, where she experienced cloud computing from the provider side. Her interests include scalable and reliable, distributed systems, cloud computing, and building effective and successful teams.

She also holds a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.