Autonomous intelligent agents based on first-principles AI. Scalable, generally applicable control systems based on Active Inference.

Infrastructure systems at massive scale. Cluster Management ("Tupperware"), Fleet Management, Capacity Management, Data Center Placement and Power Optimization.

Foundational technologies for Netflix's streaming, data science and content production organizations: Production Engineering / SRE, AWS-based VMs and containers, capacity management, disaster recovery & failover, CI/CD, service management & managed environments, data infrastructure, AI infrastructure.

Product vision, e2e high-level technical design and execution for a secure, distributed consumer-level storage and caching system. Had the great fortune of working with a team of rock stars building a consumer electronics device and AWS-based backend service.

Responsibilities:- Video ingestion (user-generated content, professional, live)- Video processing (transcoding, video quality) - Video delivery (CDN, Internet networking) - Video formats/codecs/streaming protocols (HLS, DASH)- Video content protection (encryption, DRM)- Video playback QoE (Quality of Experience)Highlights:- video processing and delivery for NBC's live streaming coverage of the 2012 Summer Olympics - up to 1080p adaptive streaming on 60+ parallel channels to desktop and mobile players- instigated and co-designed "Encrypted Media Extensions" proposal for HTML5, with the goal of removing another obstacle for HTML5 to remain a viable open application platform for the Internet.

Technical leadership for many aspects of Instant Streaming, including device control plane, DRM, client security, usage accounting, content encoding workflow, CDN, client device SDK, certification process, adaptive video streaming over HTTP.Built several successful teams, most recently client platforms engineering (Web, Game Consoles, Mobile).

Netscape Enterprise Server, AOL Communicator

Accounting, payroll, web development, IT

S/MIMEv3 for the Mozilla NSS crypto libraries.Technical lead for iPlanet Web Server 6.0.

X11 servers, graphics, keyboard and sound drivers/firmware for a variety of UNIX workstation systems.