About

Agata Grzybek is an accomplished Engineering Manager at Netflix with over 11 years of relevant experience. She is passionate about building diverse and inclusive teams that can solve complex problems through their unique set of talents and perspectives. Agata is a people-oriented leader who loves developing individuals in their careers and life and strives to build long-lasting relationships. She leads through authenticity, trust, and mindfulness, and is dedicated to making a positive impact in the world using technology as a tool. Agata has worked with a wide range of systems in terms of size and scale, from MVPs to large-scale production systems. She has expertise across the stack from data, backend systems, and ML pipelines, to APIs, front-end web, and mobile apps. With her research background, she constantly learns and explores multidisciplinary real-world problems that require the expertise of multiple domains and the understanding of the interactions among them. Her research focused on "connected cars," where she applied computer science and transportation theories to solve the problem of traffic congestion. Research areas include graph theory, distributed and dynamic networks, game theory, clustering, and optimization. Besides technology, Agata is interested in psychology, coaching, and the neuroscience of human connection. She believes that meaningful personal and professional relationships are the key to a fulfilling life. Agata has also worked as an Advisor at the routing company formerly Routable AI and as an Engineering Manager at Uber, where she led the movement.uber.com team that owned a full-stack, external-facing data visualization and data-sharing tool. She also led the City APIs team that owned a full-stack, external-facing dashboard and API services. Agata has expertise in a range of technologies, including HDFS, Spark, Scala, Javascript, Cassandra, Kafka, and more. Overall, Agata is an accomplished Engineering Manager with a passion for building diverse and inclusive teams and using technology as a tool for making a positive impact in the world. She is a people-oriented leader who is dedicated to developing individuals in their careers and life and building long-lasting relationships.