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Clarence Leung

Engineering Leader, Growth Engineering at Netflix

Experienced engineering leader with domain expertise in consumer growth and A/B testing, scaling global payments services to hundreds of millions of users, and building third-party partner integrations for worldwide companies.

$4B+Incremental revenue generated at Netflix from A/B tests and features
4IC engineers coached into engineering managers
15+Years building consumer products, since 2010

Experience

Engineering Manager of Managers, Growth Engineering · Netflix

Dec 2025 – Present · Los Gatos, CA

  • Engineering leader of the Payments and Partnerships organization, leading both other managers and ICs.
  • Lead an organization of two teams: Core Payments, integrating global methods of digital payment, and Partner Payments, handling third-party bundle activations
  • Set the overarching AI strategy for the org — using LLMs to automate the A/B testing lifecycle, and agents and Claude skills to improve operational excellence and production on-call for critical P0 services and data pipelines.
  • Global Payments
  • Partner Integrations
  • AI Strategy
  • Org Leadership

Engineering Manager, Growth Engineering · Netflix

Apr 2020 – Dec 2025 · Los Gatos, CA

  • Engineering leader of the Monetization and Commerce Lifecycle organization, leading tech lead managers and engineering individual contributors.
  • Led an organization of three teams: Acquisition, focused on core signup; Retention, focused on keeping members; and Member Commerce, focused on upsells and increasing average revenue per user.
  • Coached 4 IC engineers into full engineering managers on other teams at Netflix.
  • Engineering manager lead on Netflix’s largest-scale projects, including Account Sharing and the Offers Platform behind offers like Free Trial — coordinating UI, backend, data, and machine learning engineers across both.
  • A/B Testing
  • Acquisition
  • Retention
  • Member Commerce

Co-Founder · Aroma AI

Mar 2018 – Jan 2020 · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Founded a computer vision startup focused on image segmentation mobile SDKs for camera and video-based applications.
  • Led product, engineering, and sales across a highly remote team.
  • Computer Vision
  • Mobile SDKs
  • Product
  • Sales

Senior Software Engineer · Netflix

Jul 2015 – Mar 2018 · Los Gatos, CA

  • UI engineering on the cross-platform Acquisition UI team, specializing in mobile, internationalization, and A/B testing.
  • Built across Netflix’s website (React, Node) as well as the native iOS and Android apps.
  • React
  • Node.js
  • iOS
  • Android
  • i18n

Software Engineer · Yahoo

Jun 2013 – Jun 2015 · Sunnyvale, CA

  • Core committer on the YUI Library and Yahoo’s other open-source Node libraries.
  • Mobile UI engineer for the Multi-Device UX team, across both mobile web and native iOS.
  • YUI
  • Node.js
  • Mobile Web
  • iOS

Open Source

yui/yui3

Core committer on YUI, a library for building richly interactive web applications (4.2k stars), alongside Yahoo’s other open-source Node libraries.

Patents

Geolocation safety awareness

US20160134644A1

A system that uses a person’s location and their normal exposure to risk to detect when they enter a comparatively more dangerous area, then provides tailored safety warnings, check-in reminders, or emergency notifications when the threat exceeds a personalized threshold.

Publications

Skills

Leadership
Managing managers · Org design · Coaching & mentorship · Cross-functional leadership
Growth
A/B testing · Acquisition · Retention · Member commerce · Offers & pricing
Payments
Global payment methods · Partner bundle activations · Sandbox infrastructure
Engineering
React · Node.js · Native iOS · Native Android · Internationalization
AI
LLM automation · Agents · Claude skills · Operational excellence

Education

BSc Computer Science and Biology

McGill University

Dean’s Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research List.