Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer · Player Team (most recent)

Player team engineer on Plex's cross platform React Native client, shipping one TypeScript codebase to iOS, tvOS, Android, Android TV, Fire TV, Samsung Tizen and web, with native Swift and Kotlin underneath. My role was eliminated in October 2026 when Plex cut 24 positions and restructured its development teams, a company wide decision rather than anything to do with the work.

• Extracted the native playback layer into a standalone PlexPlayerSDK across Swift and Kotlin, a 134 file refactor, with a reference app and an automated SDK boundary check wired into CI
• Rebuilt the seek path so the dpad, the remote's seek buttons and double tap gestures all run one implementation on Apple TV, Fire TV and Android, coalescing bursts of step seeks into a single engine seek to stop playback stalling minutes behind
• Fixed seek preview thumbnails so they hold for the whole scrub, and brought them to the remote's seek buttons across both the current and the next player UI
• Fixed Android picture in picture rendering and controls in Kotlin, hiding the OSD and fitting the video to the PiP tile
• Pinned the Android navigation bar hidden behind the OSD using react-native-edge-to-edge, including a patch to react-native-safe-area-context for a stale inset bug on Android 10
• Shipped pre roll ads on FAST channels, carrying the ad tag through play queue rebuilds and fixing the ad pod lifecycle, seek blocking and countdown
• Worked across three playback engines: AVPlayer and KSPlayer (FFmpeg based) on Apple, ExoPlayer and androidx-media on Android, including engine selection by codec and content type
• Added playback metrics for the skip buttons, a post play overlay over the closing credits, and Siri transport commands that honour the skip interval asked for
• Built plex-test, a Claude Code plugin that drives a real device or simulator through a library, measures start time, seeking and sustained playback against an adb audio counter, then scores the run and renders it in a dashboard
• Delivered inside a fully AI driven workflow, writing custom Claude skills, MCP tooling and plugins so generated code stayed reviewable and grounded

Senior Software Engineer · Vodafone

Built Vodafone's next generation set top box from the ground up. Also worked across Yettel, Entel, and OneTV, delivering live, catchup, start over, channel switching, on demand, and recordings. Worked closely with Nagra on DRM and content protection integration. Helped the team hit critical launch deadlines, working remotely from the UK.

• Architected DVB/OTT playback switching using Shaka Player with seamless protocol handoff
• Built high performance UI with LightningJS optimised for low end STB hardware
• Implemented Live, StartOver, TimeShift, Catchup, VOD, and recording playback with 7 day rolling buffer
• Created remote development suite using ZeroTier & Raspberry Pi for real time STB access
• Reduced zapping times and improved playback resilience through KPI driven optimisation
• Developed stall detection, manifest manipulation, and custom debug UI for memory diagnostics
• Ported STB app to Samsung Tizen with minimal code changes

Senior Software Engineer

Worked across PeacockTV, SkyShowTime, and NowTV. Focused on video start times, rebuffering reduction, and cross platform delivery at scale.

• DASH, HLS, MSE & EME implementation across Web, Xfinity, and Samsung
• KPI monitoring and performance optimisation using Conviva (VST, VSF)
• BrightLine ad integration and mid stream adaptive bitrate capping
• Memory and CPU profiling on low end Samsung and Xfinity Xi3/Xi6 devices
• AAMP player development for Xfinity X1 platform
• CVSDK development in TypeScript with Jest and CI integration

Founder & CEO · AWS Certified

Founded and scaled a cloud media streaming platform on AWS, distributing millions of video players monthly via API. Built the full product stack end to end, from encoding tools and DRM protected playback to the underlying Amazon infrastructure: large RDS databases, EC2 Auto Scaling groups behind Elastic Load Balancers, bastion hosts inside hardened VPCs for secure access, and the full AWS Media stack. AWS Certified, with hands on experience running production services at scale.

• Built and scaled a media streaming API serving millions of video players monthly across thousands of sites
• Architected resilient AWS infrastructure: RDS (MySQL/Postgres) at scale, EC2 Auto Scaling groups, ELB / ALB load balancers, multi AZ VPC with bastion hosts and IAM hardened security
• ElectronJS encoding app with multi bitrate HLS/DASH, encryption, subtitles, thumbnails, and bulk upload
• CloudFormation & Lambda automated encoding pipeline via MediaConvert
• Studio approved DRM player via SPEKE API with Widevine, PlayReady, FairPlay using BuyDRM and EZDRM
• Production live streaming workflow with MediaLive, MediaPackage, and OBS integration
• Fully automated CloudFormation stack that spun up complete live streaming setups on demand, covering MediaLive channels, MediaPackage endpoints, IAM, networking, and DRM wiring
• AngularJS media streaming application integrated with AWS cloud workflows