| Anne Aaron | |
| Birth Name: | Anne Margot F. Aaron |
| Nationality: | Filipino |
| Occupation: | director of video algorithms at Netflix |
Anne Aaron is a Filipina engineer and the director of video algorithms at Netflix. Her responsibilities include "hiring and managing software engineers and research scientists, strategic decision-making on software architecture and research, project management, and cross-team coordination"[1]
Aaron attended the Philippine Science High School and the Ateneo de Manila University where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics in 1998, and another in computer engineering the year after.[2] She then entered Stanford University[1] where she received a PhD in electrical engineering. During these years, Aaron received the AT&T Asia Pacific Leadership Award and C.V. Starr Southeast Asian Fellowship.[3] [4]
After Stanford, Aaron dove into video streaming companies, such as Modulus Video and Dyyno, then followed a stint at Cisco Systems, where she was the engineering lead for video encoding for its FlipShare Video desktop software.[5] She has been working at Netflix since 2011.[5]
Aaron was recognized as one of the 43 most powerful female engineers of 2017 by Business Insider.[6] In 2018 she was featured among "America's Top 50 Women In Tech" by Forbes.[7]