David Parker
OTT Product Lead at Friend MTS
Yokohama, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Parker is an OTT Product Lead and full-stack JavaScript engineer with 12 years of experience designing scalable streaming systems and consumer-facing UIs from Yokohama. He blends a graphic design background with strong Node.js and TypeScript expertise to deliver accessible, high-performance frontends and resilient backend microservices that scaled an OTT platform from 2M to 30M MAUs. At Friend MTS he led forensic watermarking for live sports, built a reusable React component library, containerised services on AWS, and introduced centralised observability and CI/CD with Terraform/CloudFormation. He values test automation, documentation and design systems, and has hands-on open-source experience improving tools like BBC’s Wraith by adding site spidering and cross-platform fixes. Comfortable bridging product, design and DevOps, he turns complex streaming and analytics needs into pragmatic, auditable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Foundation, Layout Design, Typography, Photography, Printing, Design., Foundation, Layout Design, Typography, Photography, Printing, Design. at Kent Institute of Art & DesignBA(Hons), Graphic Art & Design, BA(Hons), Graphic Art & Design at Leeds Metropolitan UniversityA Level, Fine Art, A Level, Fine Art at Astor College of the Arts.
Japanese
Github Skills (10)
git10
git-repository10
github10
ruby10
image-processing9
compatibility9
windows9
command-line-interface8
command-line8
cli8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bbc/wraith
Oct 2013 - Oct 2013
Wraith — A responsive screenshot comparison tool
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 7 days
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the `wraith` tool, specifically addressing compatibility issues with Windows file structures and implementing automated website spidering capabilities. They introduced a spidering feature using the Anemone library to crawl and generate site paths for comparison. In addition, the user also made adjustments to image processing functionalities and updated commenting.
reactscreenshotcomparisonscreenshot-comparisoncomparison-tool
boldfacedesign/tvos-es6
Feb 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 8 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 6 months
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