Real product development experience at scale — leading innovation teams at Netflix, building distribution infrastructure, and managing technology products for the most demanding production environments in the world.
Netflix · Product Innovation Team Lead · 2014–2019
As Title Operations Manager at Netflix, the scope of the role expanded year-over-year to encompass the full global distribution pipeline for Netflix Originals — and ultimately led to leading a product innovation team focused on one of Netflix's core competitive challenges: delivering culturally resonant artwork at the scale required by a global platform.
Netflix serves content to hundreds of countries and regions, each requiring localized artwork, trailers, and marketing assets. The manual process for producing and QC'ing localized artwork was a bottleneck at the pace Netflix was growing. The product innovation team's mandate was to automate it.
Leading this effort required bridging creative, engineering, operations, and localization teams — translating complex production and creative requirements into a scalable automated system. The product shipped and became part of Netflix's global distribution infrastructure.
The experience of building product inside Netflix — at the pace and scale Netflix operates — is a direct input into how Mesh approaches product development consulting. Speed matters. Cross-functional alignment matters. And the product has to work in the real world, not just in a demo.
Mesh currently advises two technology companies navigating critical inflection points — helping them find product-market fit, scale efficiently, and build products that work in real production environments.
Advising the CEO of Pixelworks on scaling the company's TrueCut Motion platform — a pioneering motion grading technology that gives filmmakers control over how motion is experienced by audiences across different display technologies.
The engagement focuses on finding efficiencies as Pixelworks scales while developing software plugins, identifying product-market fit opportunities, and bringing M&E production workflow expertise to a technology company at a pivotal growth stage.
Advising Chaos on the product roadmap for Arena — their groundbreaking real-time path-tracing solution for in-camera VFX. Mesh brings the production floor perspective that shapes how Arena evolves, translating what productions actually need into product development priorities.
From DCPs to IMFs, from digital dailies to global streaming delivery — deep hands-on experience with the technical plumbing of content distribution.
As VP at Indie DCP, led operational development of digital film and television distribution. Delivered best-in-class DCPs and IMF packages. Authored all DCP and IMF specifications. Educated industry professionals on the distribution landscape — enabling content creators to access global distribution channels at accessible cost.
Built and managed the full title operations infrastructure for Netflix Originals global distribution — covering HDR, Dolby Atmos, accessibility, artwork, trailers, and QC for every original film and series. At peak, this spanned the entire Netflix Originals slate across all territories.
At Disney Digital Studio Services, managed all post-production and distribution pipelines for Marvel, ABC, Disney Studios, and Disney Marketing — encoding, transcoding, mastering, syncing, and projection-ready output across every format and delivery standard of the era.
For M&E technology companies building products for production and distribution — or studios building internal tools — Mesh provides senior product leadership and domain expertise.
Most M&E technology consultants come from either the technology side or the production side. Mesh is one of the rare practices that has operated deeply in both — building product at Netflix, supervising production at Lucasfilm, and managing technical pipelines at Disney.
That dual fluency is what allows Mesh to ask the right questions — and to know which answers are actually true versus which ones sound good in a pitch.
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