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San Francisco, CA, US

New York City, US

Ensure video is playing for HBO Max and Max customers. Write and maintain library for streaming adaptive video on desktop browsers, CTVs, and Smart TVs.

New York, NY, US

Work on video playback for android, iOS, tvOS, and browser based desktop devices for HBO Max.

Philadelphia, PA, US

Work on the player platform API team delivering an SDK used to playback video for Comcast within the browser and on set top boxes.Lead efforts in development of MSE/EME HTML5 video player used on desktop browsers and compatible smart TVs such as Samsung and LG for playing back all content within Xfinity for customers.Lead efforts for migrating to HTML5.

New York, NY, US

* Worked on the content distribution team processing files from contributors into the shutterstock ecosystem for purchase.* Migrated the legacy monolithic code base from perl­mason to node­js.* Led team effort for changing services to a message based pipeline.* Technologies used: Javascript, Node­JS, Perl, Mysql, RabbitMQ, Redis, Riak

Stamford, CT, US

• Worked on the online video portal team implementing the video player client for web browsers.
• Migrated the code base from Backbone to Angular.
• Worked on implementing flash based player for DRM video content to replace legacy silverlight player.
• Upgraded build process to utilize node­js with gulp from old shell scripts.
• Technologies used: Flex, Javascript, HTML5, CSS3, Backbone, Underscore, Sass, Angular, node­js

Phoenix, AZ, US

• VC backed startup, required to wear multiple hats and manage many projects with changing priorities.
• Led an effort to advance the company's technologies & software development process.
• Improved development process by introducing code standards, documentation, tiered architectureacross multiple projects, CI/build/deploy servers, SDLC concepts and an issue tracking system.
• Created a set of dev tools to increase productivity: logger, performance monitor, service tester, staticfiles packager.
• Led a small team to create a reusable and extensible UI framework & library utilizing advanced front­endtechniques (OO Javascript, “Partial” object concept, DOM/Behavior abstraction)
• Led a small team to create a feature­rich, flexible, reusable aggregator / reporting framework capable ofaggregating over extremely big data sources. Allowed customers to generate complex graphs and datatables based on.

Tempe, AZ, US

• Created a flexible, scalable, object oriented Javascript UI / Widget / Utils library used on more than 300unique & complex pages used by customers to manage their e­commerce storefront.
• Using a custom made front end templating engine, architected, created & implemented a HTML5/CSS3Mobile eCommerce Storefront used by over 55,000 ecommerce sites to sell goods on mobile devices.Reported & reviewed by.
• Worked on a small scrum team to introduce GoDaddy's first scalable Cloud Server products,accomplished by utilizing the OpenStack cloud computing platform
• Responsible for architecting & implementing a modern online File Manager application which allowedcustomers to manage their hosted files on over 25,000 servers running both Unix & Windowstechnologies.
• In a small team, designed & created a company­wide highly available REST API used to communicatewith all aspects of the GoDaddy platform. API was exposed both internally & externally for consumptionby GoDaddy’s.
• Technologies used: Java, JSP, Tomcat, node­js, Jetty, PHP, Postgres, MySQL, Javascript, CSS3,HTML5

Phoenix, Arizona, US

• In a fast paced environment, created & implemented a number of custom web applications used byvarious realtor professionals such as Century21 and ERA.
• Implemented a map search polygon tool which allowed users to restrict their home search to a customarea that was drawn on a map using their web browser.
• Implemented custom­built web management system for Phoenix Art Museum, allowed the museum tomaintain & update their website quickly & without reliance on developers.
• Re­architected Century21 intranet system to utilize more open source technologies. Conversion involvedmigrating from a closed­sourced Microsoft.NET environment to an open­sourced LAMP environment.
• Technologies used: Java, PHP, JSP, C#, Oracle, Postgres, Javascript, CSS, HTML

Lakewood, Colorado, US

• Worked in an agile environment on the main homepage as well as back­end system which managedwebcam videos for product reviews.
• Created a javascript library which allowed recording of the DOM and could replay a user’s interactionwith any page. This was useful for watching a user’s face as they interacted with a page.
• Technologies used: PHP, Mysql, Javascript, CSS, HTML, SVN, Mantis.

Scottsdale, AZ, US

• In a fast paced environment, created & implemented a number of custom web applications used bysocial network users.
• Utilizing Javascript, HTML, CSS created custom user interfaces used by social network users to dothings such as buy & give electronic gifts as well as rank their top friends.

• In a team of two, successfully created SAAS construction management tool that was successfully usedby a number of contractors.
• Built and managed (hardware & software) servers in multiple data centers to address redundancy andreliability concerns.
• Created a rich user experience using advanced Javascript that allowed a user to have a "nettop"(desktop) experience while still in their browser. Allowing drag & drop between "windows", savingwindow states, and even.
• Technologies used: PHP 3, CentOS (GNU/Linux), Apache 2.2, MySQL 5, Javascript, CSS, HTML