Ben Clifford
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Clifford is a seasoned solutions engineering leader with 11 years at Brightcove, most recently serving as Director of Sales Engineering in Europe, where he combined hands-on technical deal support with team mentorship to scale video SaaS adoption across OTT and enterprise customers. He excels at translating complex streaming and cloud-based solutions into compelling business value, owning RFI/RFP responses, demos, POCs and custom code prototypes in JavaScript, Python and cloud services. A core contributor and Technical Steering Committee member for the open-source Video.js player, he brings both product advocacy and governance experience to inform roadmap decisions. Based in Munich and fluent in the commercial and technical nuances of DACH and UK markets, he has a track record of empowering account teams to self-serve demos and improving sales engineering efficiency. Notably, his background blends legal education with deep technical support and operational experience for mission-critical live streaming events, giving him an uncommon mix of domain knowledge and customer-focused rigor.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
LLB (Hons), Law, German, 2:1, LLB (Hons), Law, German, 2:1 at The University of HullErasmus Programme, Law, Erasmus Programme, Law at University of Düsseldorf
English, German
Github Skills (23)
javascript10
html5-audio10
video-player10
player10
html10
videojs10
html5-video10
preroll9
ads8
js-plugin8
displays7
plugin6
metadata5
json4
json-ld4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
brightcove/videojs-schema
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
Injects schema.org JSON-LD metadata for Video Cloud videos
Contributions:5 commits, 22 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 months
json-ldjson-orgschema-orgvideosvideo
mister-ben/test
Jun 2017 - Oct 2021
Contributions:3 issues in 4 years 4 months
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