Adam Waldron
Staff Software Engineer at Fandango at Home
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Waldron is a Staff Software Engineer in Seattle with a decade of experience building and scaling web video playback systems and player SDKs. He has led engineering efforts at Brightcove and Comcast Technologies, contributing to video.js and helping power millions of hours of daily playback while shaping industry streaming standards. Comfortable across front-end and low-level media parsing, he’s designed ISOBMFF parsers, low-latency streaming features, DRM and ad-insertion tooling, and fixed browser-specific playback bugs (including Safari/iOS native replay issues). Adam pairs deep technical mentorship with product-minded delivery, regularly presenting at meetups and guiding web players teams as an SME. His background running restaurants and managing POS systems gives him a practical edge in operations and customer-focused solutions, and he brings a drummer’s sense of rhythm to both music and engineering cadence.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Alaska Anchorage
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (10)
html10
javascript10
html5-video10
video-player10
player10
debug9
compatible8
safari8
testing8
browser-support8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
videojs/video.js
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Video.js - open source HTML5 video player
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:41 reviews, 1 commit, 45 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the video.js HTML5 video player repository. Their work addressed issues such as a broken replay button, specifically for native playback in Safari and iOS. The commits also involved refactoring and updating the browser utility functions, and adding new error consts. These changes indicate a focus on enhancing the player's core functionality, stability, and compatibility across different browsers and platforms.
dashhtml5-audiovideojshtml5-videojavascript
adrums86/mux.js
Dec 2022 - Feb 2023
Lightweight utilities for inspecting and manipulating video container formats.
Contributions:19 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
formatsdockervideo
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