Andrew Sweeney
Engineering Leader, Netflix
Andrew Sweeney is an engineering leader known for architecting and scaling cutting-edge advertising platforms. As the head of Netflix’s AdServer engineering organization, he oversees the technology powering the company’s direct and programmatic advertising across both on-demand and live content, shaping the future of advertising in streaming.
Prior to Netflix, Andrew co-founded Scope3, a pioneering venture dedicated to decarbonizing digital media, and Waybridge, a transformative supply chain platform for global commodity markets. Before joining Netflix, he served as SVP of Engineering at Xandr (formerly AppNexus), where he played a critical role in the strategic and engineering vision of its Publisher AdServer, SSP, and DSP product lines, helping drive the evolution of programmatic advertising. His career began at Sandia National Laboratories, where he worked on supercomputing and security research, giving him a deep technical foundation that continues to inform his approach to large-scale engineering challenges.
A graduate of The George Washington University with B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science, he lives in Brooklyn with his wife and their three children.