front matter
I met Nishant while I was leading the product and engineering team at Netflix, where I had been since the beginning of the company. The team was about 500 strong, and while we had had early brushes with security challenges, we had not tackled privacy in a significant way until we faced blowback from the Netflix Prize, and then GDPR and CCPA in quick succession. We were building out the team, the philosophy, and the deliverables at the same time, and Nishant was a key part of that team—someone who spoke both engineering and privacy, who understood the pragmatics, the needs of the business, the limits on engineering effort, and the commitments we had made (and needed to make) to our customers and how to fulfill them.