Allison Deal
Software Engineer, Live Broadcast Systems at Netflix
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAllison Deal is a software engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in video encoding, live streaming pipelines, and end-to-end playback optimization. Currently building Live Broadcast Systems at Netflix, she has driven scalable live and on-demand video solutions across multiple teams since joining the company in 2022. Her background includes senior video engineering roles at Hulu and ViacomCBS, where she led engineering efforts to improve quality and reliability for large audiences. Trained in systems and industrial engineering, she blends systems-level thinking with hands-on implementation to tackle performance, latency, and operational challenges. Allison values curiosity, clear communication, and diverse perspectives, and she brings a track record of improving user playback experiences through pragmatic, data-informed engineering. Based in Los Angeles, she combines media-industry domain expertise with a systems-engineering approach uncommon among application-focused engineers.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Global Integrated Systems Engineering, Global Integrated Systems Engineering at University of WashingtonB.S. Systems Engineering, B.S. Systems Engineering at Washington University in St. LouisIndustrial Engineering, Industrial Engineering at Boğaziçi University
Spanish
Github Skills (13)
concert10
synchronize9
crowd9
audio7
python3
packager2
x-plane2
duplicates1
recipe1
mongodb1
questions-and-answers1
react1
manifest1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
allisonnicoledeal/VideoSync
Jul 2013 - Aug 2013
Automatically synchronize crowd-sourced concert videos
Contributions:31 commits in 24 days
concertvideosaudiosynchronizevideo
allisonnicoledeal/booking-com
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
booking.com hackathon
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
reactpythonrecipeduplicatesx-plane
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