David Ronca
CEO at RoncaTech, inc
Campbell, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Ronca is a seasoned video systems leader and founder with over two decades of experience architecting large-scale encoding, streaming, and media-processing platforms for companies like Netflix and Meta. He built and led Netflix’s Encoding team—creating cloud-native parallel encoding, inspection tools, and VMAF-driven quality workflows—and later directed Facebook’s Video Processing org responsible for Live, Reels, and Watch at massive scale. His current focus is reducing the complexity, cost, and power footprint of video processing across data centers, aiming to push new global encoding paradigms. As CEO of RoncaTech he now consults on transcoding workflows, video quality, and high-performance team building while maintaining a strong engineering-first mindset. Known for shipping practical research into production (including Dolby Vision and large-scale bitrate experiments), he blends systems engineering, product rigor, and people leadership. Based in Campbell, CA, he pairs deep protocol and codec expertise with a track record of turning experimental video science into deployable infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
C++ Object Oriented Programming, C++ Object Oriented Programming at University of California, BerkeleyDe VryMaster's degree Software Engineering, Master's degree Software Engineering at San José State UniversityCOM MAPI, COM MAPI at DevelopMentor
Github Skills (4)
markup2
markup-language2
timed2
testing1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
Netflix/vp9-dash
Dec 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
w3c/ttml2
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Timed Text Markup Language 2 (TTML2)
Contributions:3 comments in 1 month
timedmarkup-languagemarkuptext-markup
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