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 three teams: Core Payments, integrating global methods of digital payment; Partner Payments, handling third-party bundle activations; and Payments Automation Infrastructure, building sandbox environments for external partners to test their Netflix integrations.
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.

Computerized system and method for an interactive online learning experience

US11805165B2

A system for creating and delivering modular, interactive online lessons that adapt to a learner’s responses while tracking progress and performance.

Publications

Phylo: A Citizen Science Approach for Improving Multiple Sequence Alignment

Kawrykow, Roumanis, Leung & Waldispühl · PLOS One 7.3, e31362 · March 2012

A citizen science game that recasts multiple sequence alignment as a color-matching puzzle, letting non-expert players improve on the alignments produced by computational heuristics.

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.