Brian Leighty
Staff Software Engineer at Tubi
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolBrian Leighty is a Staff Software Engineer in Atlanta with 11 years of experience building and modernizing OTT and mobile video applications for companies like Tubi, MasterClass, fuboTV, and Turner. He specializes in end-to-end media platforms—rewriting Roku and tvOS apps, designing FFmpeg-based encode clusters, and integrating AWS serverless components—to deliver scalable streaming experiences. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he pairs frontend and backend expertise with a history of performance optimizations (image deduplication, encoding pipelines) and test-driven development. Comfortable in Agile teams and Gitflow workflows, he advances products from prototype demos to production-ready releases while mentoring peers and iterating on architecture.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Associates, Entertainment Technology, Associates, Entertainment Technology at Chattahoochee Technical College
English
Github Skills (147)
brightscript10
visual-studio-code-extension10
microphone10
visual-studio10
replaykit10
editor10
camera10
aac10
roku10
deploying10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
tvos10
vscode10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
triwav/roku-test-automation
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
Helps with automating functional tests
Contributions:11 releases, 47 reviews, 123 commits in 2 years 10 months
testingfunctional-tests
triwav/roku-bench
Sep 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:5 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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