Brent Smith
Director Of Client Engineering at REDspace Inc.
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBrent Smith is a Director of Client Engineering with over a decade of experience designing and delivering video-centric systems for Fortune 500 clients. He leads and mentors large distributed teams—over 80 engineers—across Video, Ads, Data, Web, Native, and Backend services at REDspace, providing both high-level architecture and hands-on problem solving. His background spans early Flash/AS3 work to modern JavaScript and broadband platform build/deploy pipelines, with deep expertise in automation, testing, schema definition, and documentation. Brent excels at translating client pain points into elegant technical solutions that scale for business-critical use cases. He combines a strong engineering craft with project management instincts, having worked with Viacom, IBM, and NTT before rising through technical leadership. Based in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, he’s the go-to technical contact for complex video problems and keeps a pragmatic focus on shipping reliable systems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science in Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelors of Science in Computer Science, Computer Science at University of New Brunswick
Github Skills (41)
javascript10
http-live-streaming10
html5-audio10
stream10
mse10
hlsjs10
mp410
playback10
hls-stream10
player10
video-streaming10
mediasource10
html5-video10
streaming10
vp99
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
brentsmith-dev/hls.js
Mar 2017 - Feb 2019
MSE-based HLS client - http://dailymotion.github.io/hls.js/demo
Contributions:5 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 11 months
hls-jshttp-clientdailymotionvideomse
markmckenna/robocalypse
Aug 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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