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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

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

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

• 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

• 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

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Ottawa, Ontario, CA

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