Anthony Lawson
Principal Software Engineer at The Walt Disney Company
Kansas City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolAnthony Lawson is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building cross-platform consumer video experiences and backend services, currently leading ESPN apps for Android TV, Fire TV, Portal TV and tvOS at The Walt Disney Company. He blends native Android and OTT expertise with server-side Java (Spring Boot) and GraphQL, having led integrations like WatchESPN and ESPN Cricket Pass. Earlier in his career he developed C++ networking components and SELinux tooling for embedded systems, and wrote developer tools in Python—skills that give him deep systems-level perspective on performance and security. Based in the Kansas City area, he’s known for translating complex media and device constraints into polished products and for mentoring cross-discipline teams to ship reliable, high-scale streaming applications.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering Multimedia and Networking, Computer Engineering Multimedia and Networking at Kansas State University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (48)
authentication9
java9
groovy9
sms9
kotlin9
gradle9
factor9
bind9
player9
exoplayer8
extensible8
backlog8
annotation-processor8
media-player8
newrelic8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
anthonylawson/espn-node
Nov 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:27 commits in 14 days
anthonylawson/pette
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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