Ash Mishra
Senior Strategist & Technologist
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolAsh Mishra is a Senior Strategist & Technologist with over three decades of experience building digital products for major public broadcasters and cultural institutions, now leading mobile and Connected TV development at the National Film Board of Canada. He blends hands-on engineering—particularly React Native mobile work and notable contributions to react-native-video’s iOS playback and captioning—with product ownership, architecture and team leadership across Apple, Android, Roku and Amazon platforms. Ash shapes maintainable, cost-effective cross-platform architectures that prioritize UX, automation and significant code reuse, while mentoring junior developers and driving sprint and strategic planning. Early experience at the BBC and CBC informs his ability to translate complex editorial and media requirements into scalable apps, and outside of work he balances a technical focus with an active outdoor lifestyle as an avid cyclist, sailor and father.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Emily Carr Institute of Art & DesignEngineering, Electrical, Engineering, Electrical at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (13)
objective-c10
videojs10
media-playback10
substr10
ios10
react-native10
avfoundation10
video-player10
playback10
subtitle10
xcode6
react-native-debugger6
android-emulator6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
TheWidlarzGroup/react-native-video
Jun 2018 - Nov 2019
A <Video /> component for react-native
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:35 commits, 12 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Ash primarily contributed to the iOS component of the `react-native-video` library, focusing on improving video playback capabilities and handling of subtitles. They implemented sidecar loading for captions and offline support, fixed issues related to text track selection, and added support for maximum bit rate adaptive streaming. Several commits also addressed bugs, particularly related to full-screen mode and the handling of files stored in the Documents folder.
react-nativereactvideocomponent-video
nfb-onf/react-native-video
Jun 2018 - Nov 2022
A <Video /> component for react-native
Contributions:2 PRs, 101 pushes, 31 branches in 4 years 5 months
reactreact-nativevideo-playervideocomponent-video
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