Alex Halter
Data Engineer
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Halter is a seasoned data engineer with 13 years of experience building reliable data pipelines and full-stack systems at companies across growth stages, currently focused on streaming and batch infrastructure at JW Player. He works across Kafka, Storm, Luigi, Hadoop and Spark and prefers deliberate, understandable, reusable code—bringing both backend data engineering and frontend sensibilities from contributing to JW Player’s widely used HTML5 player. Alex pairs an MS in Computer Science from NYU (3.9 GPA) with a BA in History, reflecting a strong analytical foundation and unusual cross-disciplinary curiosity. His background includes product management at Ask.com and teaching algorithms at NYU, which informs his ability to translate complex requirements into pragmatic, production-ready solutions. Colleagues rely on him to get systems working reliably across platforms and devices, often tackling tricky integration and metadata edge cases in media playback and streaming.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA, History, BA, History at University of MichiganMS, CS, 3.9something GPA, MS, CS, 3.9something GPA at New York University
Github Skills (9)
html10
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
css9
mobile-development8
webaccess6
accessibility6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jwplayer/jwplayer
Sep 2012 - Nov 2014
No Longer Maintained
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:283 commits, 2 PRs, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the user interface of the JW Player project, with the focus on the HTML5 player. They worked on adding features like the onmeta event, duration, video width, and height to the metadata events. Additionally, the user addressed bugs and implemented features related to the control bar, handling fullscreen events, including both fake fullscreen and native implementations on various platforms, and ensuring accurate display and interaction within different mobile and desktop environments.
html5-videoandroidmedia-playervideo-playermse
alkupe/yafs
Jun 2014 - Jun 2014
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
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