David Lapalomento
General Manager, Streaming And CTV at JWX
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Lapalomento is a seasoned engineering executive with 16 years of experience building and scaling video streaming platforms and teams, currently serving as General Manager, Streaming and CTV at JWX. He has led global reorganizations, cloud migrations of thousands of VMs into containerized platforms, and grew revenue from $64M to $184M across leadership roles. David personally architected and implemented software powering a significant share of web-based video, contributed to the widely used open-source Video.js ecosystem, and helped deliver >99.99% uptime across a billion-plus hours of playback. He combines hands-on full-stack expertise—ranging from front-end UI and ad-plugin work to transmuxing and MP4 handling—with a proven ability to inspire and scale engineering teams from two to two hundred. Based in Boston and educated at UT Austin, he’s as comfortable presenting at industry forums as he is diving into edge-case media-format bugs. An unexpected strength: he routinely translates deep technical trade-offs into product and revenue outcomes, moving acquisitions to market in weeks rather than months.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (23)
javascript10
testing10
css10
actionscript10
ui-design10
flash10
uid10
mp410
front-end-development10
video-player10
player10
html10
videojs10
ads10
maven6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
videojs/video-js-swf
Jun 2013 - Nov 2015
Custom Flash Player for VideoJS
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:75 commits, 23 PRs, 37 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on enhancing the Flash-based SWF player for the VideoJS library. Their contributions involved implementing features like streaming FLVs using data generation mode, handling pausing and seeking, and providing buffered time ranges. Furthermore, the user modified the SWF's internal structure and external interface to support new features like the endOfStream and abort methods. The user also worked on build process improvements.
videojsjavascriptflashvideo-playervideo
videojs/videojs-contrib-ads
Sep 2013 - Mar 2016
A Tool for Building Video.js Ad Plugins
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:81 commits, 16 PRs, 25 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on improving the functionality and reliability of the video.js ad plugin. Their contributions included refactoring code to handle a single play cancellation timeout and fixing issues related to the restoration of video player snapshots after ad playback, particularly in scenarios with burned-in ads or changes in source. They also added new test cases to address edge cases, and implemented a debug option to aid in debugging. Furthermore, they made modifications to manage captions and video events.
videojsadshtml5-videoprerolljavascript
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