David Rodd Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

West Hollywood, California, Us

● Lead a team of engineers ranging from interns to senior developers, building new Media Processingpipelines in Golang and NodeJS● Took over many management duties as Acting Engineering Manager of the same team after the manager's departure.● Mentored junior engineers to help steer their career paths in the direction they wanted● Designed and implemented new Media Processing Pipeline (v2), implementing messaging with Kafkausing Protobuf schemas and Confluent Cloud.● Worked with multiple internal teams to gather requirements for new projects, learn how our systemsinteract and are built and deployed and evangelize for the adoption of our new pipeline withsupporting documentation● Employed Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes and deployment systems such as Harness; utilizinginfrastructure as code for new v2 pipeline while also maintaining existing v1 pipeline● Built entire v1 pipeline using Github Actions and AWS, then deprecated this in favor of v2● Designed and built JIT Caption system to convert VTT and SRT to TTML sidecar for legacy devices● Worked with Architecture and Innovation teams on POCs for new transcoding systems● Gave fortnightly updates for my team in engineering-wide all hands meetings● Created documentation for new systems and how-to-guides for developers onboarding or setting up adev environment for the first time using a new code-base● Collaborated with leadership to set goals and align our team’s OKR with the larger engineering team’sand the company’s OKR● Participated in company-wide Hackathons and ranked in the top 5 projects - leveraging machinelearning video systems to collate similar content and commercials. This built a metadata lake so likecontent and brands could be viewed together leading to more engagement and watch time

West Hollywood, California, Us

West Hollywood, California, Us

Atlanta, Us

• Lead a team of engineers to deliver mission critical video engineering features written in Node JS and React• Built a video feature for a new clay-based CMS, including upload, search, import and live streaming• Created an off-prem replacement for an IPTV system for emergency use during the pandemic • Used Wowza Live Streaming Engine on AWS EC2 instances to route streams to existing systems• Built POCs of video systems for live streaming events with interactive elements such as Q&A• Refactored a legacy system to leverage an improved stack with React hooks• Liaised with vendors to ingest VOD media assets from external systems into in-house systems• Investigated cloud-based video control room systems to create evolving live-streaming POC offerings to drive registration• Created A/B tests with Optimizely to test registration for web based live streaming events• Worked with Docker, Jenkins and Rancher to deploy in-house systems

New York, New York, Us

• Senior Engineer of pod tasked with creating an internal Media Management tool• Utilized AWS Lambda written in Node JS • Leveraged messaging systems on AWS and GCP such as SQS, SNS, Kinesis and Cloud PubSub• Connected to Airtable as data source, using Node SDK to retrieve data.• Updated backend architecture to migrate from Drupal SQL DB datastore to Firebase NoSQL datastore• Designed and implemented Firebase to BigQuery export service• Used GCP to implement dataflow ETL jobs and GCS for storage of json files for import.• Architected application to upload video files from on premises shared storage to cloud storage• Leveraged Algolia to create indices for data consumption via UI• Created RSS/MRSS/Smartnews feed system to deliver videos to feed partners.• Consulted with Microsoft Video Indexer and leveraged their AI system to collate insights on all brand videos.• Worked with many 3rd party API systems including JW Player, Wasabi Storage, Frame IO• Worked closely with DevOps using Jenkins to create deployment jobs.• Designed Automated Testing pipeline to test data flow for the entire system

• Architected and deployed live streaming infrastructure, including HLS transcoder and Rails API, Ruby applications• Implemented RTMP live stream router to enable distribution to multiple destinations on social media and partner sites• Collaborated with global clients to test a variety of RTMP encoders for compatibility• Instituted video ingestion system, using Elastic Transcoder presets and built video interrogation system to match incoming videos to transcoded outputs for desktop and mobile viewing• Designed and constructed Video Clipping system using SNS, SQS and FFMPEG to make smaller clips of original videos• Created distribution system for sharing videos and clips on social media• Fabricated Rails API binary file ingestion system to ingest images with NodeJS Lambdas and Ruby applications• Implemented Video Branding system to concatenate and bug videos with FFMPEG • Wrote MRSS feed generation system for distribution of video content to third-party clients• Designed Linux AMI for deployment of backend code• Managed all AWS cloud infrastructure, including VPC, RDS, EC2, Route53, S3, ETS• Created CI/CD Pipeline for management of AWS cloud based infrastructure• Wrote Ruby CLI for Devs to easily use CI/CD pipline• Created worker system for short running backend tasks• Used former video production knowledge to enhance and solidify my team’s understanding of video

• Built Linux Webserver with connectivity to shared storage for local and remote viewing of screeners• Built Wordpress frontend of webserver for easy post-production processes such as ingest and project creation• Wrote and configured automation of a screener process to encode video on linux server via ffmpeg and deliver via html5 player with wordpress front end, with posts created via sql table entries on backend.• Built two studios, VO booth, prompter, lights and lighting board• Built Control room for Live Streaming and remote two-way interviews • Designed and commissioned creation of patch panels for easy connectivity of SDI and XLR signal flow from studio to control room/newsroom• Configured remote access and setup videowall consisting of 3x2 46” LED panels• Configured Shared storage and 10G Connectivity for Edit Rooms• Created Standard Post Production operating procedures, with all specs and tasks adhered to• General IT - Assist with new user setup, helped users in setting up VPN access, Internet connectivity/troubleshooting, set up users to workgroup printers and file servers, Assisting users with email setup, Google shared documents, Managing user permissions/access to files on the network• Setup and supported Synology Rackstation server with Webdav remote file access, individual and group cloud sync, 3 camera surveillance motion activated security system

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