Alisa Peters
Alisa Peters is a staff software engineer at Netflix
Alisa Peters is a staff software engineer at Netflix working in the Member Experience Core Systems org. She is swinging on the engineer/manager pendulum and has previous experience working in government defense contracting and startups in a variety of domains and business models. As a technical leader she specializes in software design and architecture of large-scale distributed systems and thrives on solving ambiguous problems with many stakeholders where she can connect the dots. Outside of work, she spends time with her family and directs an a cappella chorus of 20 singers in San Francisco.
How to balance technical direction and leadership work
But as is often the case in business, priorities constantly shift and where you focus your efforts will too. So how do you strike the right balance between working on the technical direction of the business and those tasks that require you to put your leadership hat on?
