Michael Dale Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Heading up core & AI engineering for Venu Sports streaming service. Venu Sports is operated as a joint venture between Fox (Fox Sports), Disney (ESPN), and Warner Bros Discovery

San Francisco, California, Us

Lead Engineering at Caffeine.tv: * Built a world class streaming platform that has grown to 61 million monthly users and 4 million per day; on Web, Mobile, embed network, Roku, FireTV, Chromecast, Android TV. * Aggregated 200 sports partners across 17 categories of sports with hardened ingest system. * Built virtual gifting, subscriptions, PPV and advertising products. * Built a world class team, worked with world class board, and world class set of investors.* Created a unique and disruptive angle for live streaming sports.Innovative Streaming Tech posts / talks:* Low Latency high availability - https://shorturl.at/DoXif* Lesson Learned low latency ingest (Adam Roach) - https://shorturl.at/L5050* Some notes on Low Latency Rollout - https://shorturl.at/WHhhF

San Francisco, California, Us

Culver City, Ca, Us

* Managed cloud platform transition for serving 4 billion+ watch minutes per month. * Helped scale Crunchyroll to more than 5 million subscribers* Built engineering culture via hack-days, tech conferences, speaking opportunities for the team, tech ownership & mentorship including Demuxed, NAB, StreamMedia, IBC * Managed team of 70+ engineers. Lead recruiting on key roles. Managed remote teams; established cross functional team efforts. * AVOD audience / total audience grew to more than 20 million MAU across more than a dozen OTT platforms.* Optimized cloud utilization, established multi-cdn JIT multi-protocol VOD delivery driving down cost 20-50% relative industry baselines. * Lead efforts on OTT platforms, Mobile, Web, Player, Video Infra, CMS, Ads, Experimentation platform & Growth* Integrated OKRs and KPIs into establishing goals and aligned evaluations of engineering managers and directors. * Architected and hand-built POC on several innovative initiatives; around QoS rollups, playback-apis, AI content upscaling, SSAI, app config management, platform code consolidation, lambda @ edge manifest manipulation services ( multi-cdn & dynamic ad insertion ) * Launched multi-channel VRV video streaming service.

Remote First, Us

Supported product media road map alignment with the worlds largest content publishers and service operators including Disney, Fox, ABC, Vodafone, MediaCorp etc. Built product vision, road map strategy against market opportunities, built a competitive product analysis papers, assessed customer needs, and built high profile media products which won market acclaim and grew Kaltura customer base. Products include the Kaltura player, live streaming platform, digital rights management, client and server-side ad monetization systems. Work on product releases has included architecture review with developers, engagement with APIs, supporting partner developer ecosystem, road map alignment with internal & external stakeholders, go to market strategy, sales product training, close alignment with product marketing, press interviews, ghost and credited articles in key industry publications, case studies, RFP response and engagement with customers to optimize usage of the product towards business growth.

Remote First, Us

Leads development on front end cross platform JavaScript and native application video services. * Architected a front end video platform to support many mobile platforms ( Android, OSX ) and desktop HTML5, to maximize performance, platform compatibility and ease of development for 3rd party integrations. * Developed road map, overall architecture and targeted product features, and lead small team of developers. * Gave talks and helped build messaging on HTML5 platform developments and Kaltura's offering in webinars, conferences and marking. * Established automated testing procedures, development workflows with git and lead internal development efforts tie together automated testing with code review and git development workflow. * Work on site with 3rd party companies to support integrations and customizations in a wide variety of use cases for major media companies. * Closely supported numerous client integrations and use cases.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Managed community developer participation with with Wikipedia experimental online video development efforts. Developed a video playback library and html5 video editing solution. For coverage of some of the projects see respective blog posts: http://goo.gl/DzoZsAlso worked with partners such as the Mozilla foundation in overseeing grant work to advance open source and royalty free video: http://goo.gl/Oh88e

Santa Cruz, Ca, Us

* Co-Found and developed the metavid.org. Funded via NSF and a Sunlight Foundation grant, Michael developed a participatory temporal semantic metadata search system for online congressional video footage. Worked with EFF and University Law Center, around legal issues with the initial liberation of CSPAN Congressional floor footage. * Worked with professor Warren Sack, on University Research projects. Including NSF funded research on automated political point of view discovery in large scale online conversations.* Worked on site in Argentina on interdisciplinary research projects around issues of representation in South America.

Masters In Fine Arts, Digital Arts And New Media

Bachlers Of Arts, Double Major: Computer Science And Film & Digital Media