Álvaro Galván
Advanced Research Engineer at Shaka Player
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolÁvaro Galván is an Advanced Research Engineer with 9 years of experience building OTT video applications across web, Smart TVs (Tizen, WebOS), consoles (Xbox, PlayStation) and Chromecast, currently based in Madrid. He combines deep expertise in streaming technologies (DASH, HLS), DRM integrations (PlayReady, Widevine, FairPlay) and ad stitching (IMA, DAI, MediaTailor) with hands-on product delivery. As a Shaka Player maintainer and active GitHub contributor, he brings uncommon protocol-level and player-side knowledge that speeds up integration and debugging for complex streaming stacks. His background spans R&D, lead engineering and continuous improvement roles, giving him a blend of research rigor and pragmatic engineering for production video platforms. Colleagues rely on him for solving tricky playback and DRM edge cases that often block deployments.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniero Superior de Telecomunicaciones, Telematica, Ingeniero Superior de Telecomunicaciones, Telematica at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Spanish, English
Github Skills (103)
drm10
video-encoding10
bug-reporting10
streaming10
javascript10
http-live-streaming10
stream10
playback10
hls-stream10
video-streaming10
eme10
vod10
chromecast10
offline-mode10
widevine10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
avelad/shaka-player
Feb 2019 - Apr 2025
JavaScript player library / DASH & HLS client / MSE-EME player
Contributions:2 PRs, 3386 pushes, 2984 branches in 6 years 2 months
dashjavascriptjavascript-playervideomse
avelad/shaka-github-tools
Apr 2022 - Nov 2024
Tools and infrastructure shared among Shaka team projects on GitHub
Contributions:9 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 6 months
shakainfrastructureamong
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