Subhrendu Sarkar currently leads the Video Platform at Warner Bros Discovery and HBO Max. With over 20+ years of experience in media streaming, he finds the challenges of large-scale media streaming exciting and fun. He has built his career working across the stack from media players, media compression, real time streaming and content delivery. Prior to Warner Bros Discovery, he led Crunchyroll’s Video Engineering groups and has a rich experience of building innovative products around media compression, streaming quality monitoring and AR/VR streaming in both small startups and mid/large organizations in the silicon valley. The passion for media and technology aside, he loves spending time with books, soccer, video games and watching House of Dragons on Sundays.