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# About

Stephen is a member of the Edge API team at Netflix. His team develops and
operates the Netflix API platform. This is the nexus point where hundreds of
microservices are aggregated into a single API that delivers the Netflix
experience for the hundreds of millions of Netflix devices worldwide. Prior to
Netflix, Stephen dabbled in medical imaging algorithms for GE Healthcare in
Versailles before pivoting to nuclear control systems for the Tennessee Valley
Authority, and then messaging systems for OpenTable. When not distributing
systems, Stephen can be found chasing his one-year-old daughter and trying to
teach her drums - much to his wife’s chagrin.

# Talks
## Patterns in API Architectures
  - October 2023 @ API World
  - https://bit.ly/PatternsInAPIArchitectures-Slides
## Fixing the Billion Dollar Mistake: Client Controlled Nullability
  - September 2023 @ GraphQLConf SF
  - https://bit.ly/FixingTheBillionDollarMistake-GraphQLConf2023
## Netflix's Supergraph Saga Continues: Collaboration at Scale
  - October 2022 @ GraphQL Summit San Diego
  - https://bit.ly/3HG4uaT
## How Netflix Scales its API with GraphQL Federation
  - November 2020 @ QCon Plus
  - https://youtu.be/QrEOvHdH2Cg
## The Network is Reliable and Other Tall Tales
  - January 2016 @ Georgia Institute of Technology
  - February 2016 @ Chadev
  - https://youtu.be/dVriGc9pTgY?t=8m11s
## How Complex Systems Fail
  - November 3rd, 2015 @ Lambda Lounge Chattanooga
## The UNIX Philosophy
  - August 2015 @ Chattanooga Developers Lunch
  - https://youtu.be/6OKXxQQHTLQ


Twitter: @stephenspalding
Github: fotoetienne