Dan Sparacio
Director Of Software Engineering at Paramount
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolDan Sparacio is a seasoned engineering leader with 15+ years building and scaling enterprise streaming media platforms, now serving as Director of Software Engineering at Paramount in Portland. He combines hands-on media playback expertise—across JS and native clients—with product and program leadership to deliver global video playback, monetization, and ad-tech solutions used by millions. Dan has deep technical pedigree in ABR, transcoding, accessibility, analytics, and live/VOD workflows, and is a contributor to open standards and tooling such as DASH-IF and SVTA. As a co-originator and developer on dash.js and SVTA’s Common Media Library, he brings pragmatic open-source experience that materially improves browser MPEG-DASH playback and subtitle handling. Colleagues describe him as a bridge between engineering and product who thrives on untangling complex streaming problems while growing high-performing cross-functional teams. With a background that spans Akamai, CBS Interactive, and Paramount, he pairs enterprise-scale execution with a developer’s attention to playback reliability and standards.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Music, Bachelor's degree Music at San Diego State University
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Github contributions (5)
Dash-Industry-Forum/dash.js
Aug 2013 - May 2014
A reference client implementation for the playback of MPEG DASH via Javascript and compliant browsers.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 19 commits, 759 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the front-end development of the dash.js project, focusing on enhancing the playback of MPEG DASH streams. Their work included adding functionality for handling text tracks in manifests, specifically VTT subtitles, and integrating them into the player. Furthermore, the user made code changes to improve debugging capabilities by filtering and logging information to the browser console. They also refactored code for consistency and addressed a bug related to multiple text tracks being added during pause and play.
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dsparacio/dash.js
Jan 2015 - May 2024
A reference client implementation for the playback of MPEG DASH via Javascript and compliant browsers.
Contributions:494 pushes, 118 branches, 3 tags in 9 years 6 months
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