Samuel Défago Email & Phone Number

Geneva, Switzerland

Shaping the future of mobile media consumption at RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, the Swiss French radio and television (https://www.rts.ch). My company is part of SRG SSR, the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (https://www.srgssr.ch).I work full-time for the player team. Our team is responsible of delivering a modern, cross-platform player ecosystem for all SRG SSR, called Pillarbox. Robust, feature-rich and extensible, our player is meant to address creative needs for existing products, as well as products that will be built in the future.My everyday job is to work on the Pillarbox player SDK for Apple platforms (currently iOS and tvOS, but likely all Apple platforms in the future). With my Android and web colleagues we are working together on requirement and API design, architecture, implementation, tests, documentation, CI and CD. As an Apple development specialist, though, I am focusing almost exclusively on building the best possible player SDK for iOS and tvOS (hopefully more in the future).All our work is available publicly on GitHub (https://github.com/SRGSSR/pillarbox-apple). More information is provided in the Projects section below.

Geneva, Switzerland

Shaping the future of mobile media consumption at RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, the Swiss French radio and television (https://www.rts.ch). My company is part of SRG SSR, the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (https://www.srgssr.ch).I work full-time for the Play platform, which provides Swiss citizens with access to the broad audio and video content made available by RTS and, more widely, by all other SRG SSR business units (SRF, RSI, RTR and SWI). The project involves teams from all linguistic regions of Switzerland, working in a Scrum setup, and targets web, iOS, tvOS and Android platforms. My everyday job is to develop and deliver the 5 Play iOS / tvOS applications, built on top of a set of more than 10 libraries covering all our business needs, and shared with other teams within the company to streamline development.By far most of our work is to ensure painless media playback integration, a task which is known to be tricky. Our standard player is tightly integrated within the Apple ecosystem, and supports AirPlay, picture in picture or control center integration out of the box. It provides a reliable and easy to use way to deliver the rich content we produce, audios and videos, on-demand and live streams, as well as 360° content, with or without DRMs (FairPlay).Since we are a public service company, reaching minorities is at premium. We ensure our entire ecosystem is compatible with accessibility features like VoiceOver or large font sizes.All our libraries are available publicly on GitHub (https://github.com/SRGSSR?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=apple), as well as the entire source code of the Play applications (https://github.com/SRGSSR/playsrg-ios). More information is provided in the Projects section below.

Geneva Area, Switzerland

Working in a dynamic agile mobile and web development team on various iOS projects (iPhone / iPad). Closely collaborating with customers and designers to deliver competitive, robust applications crafted with love.

Geneva Area, Switzerland

Working in a dynamic agile development team on various iOS projects (iPhone / iPad). Closely collaborating with customers and designers to deliver competitive, robust and neatly crafted applications.

Geneva Area, Switzerland

C and Objective-C developer for an IT services company

Geneva Area, Switzerland

Integration of middle/back-office tools with existing closed-source solutions for automated trading using the FIX protocol for connection with brokers. Development of communication interfaces between existing tools (C++, socket programming in a multithreaded configuration).Development of tools for performance evaluation purposes, storing and retrieving data from a MySQL database.Optimization of collaborative work by introducing sets of rules and tools to support them.Management of VMs on a VMware ESX virtualized infrastructure (Solaris 10, Windows).

Diplom (Master), Theoretical Physics

Maturité De Type C, Mathematics And Physics