Derek Prestegard
Senior Staff Software Engineer - Video at The Walt Disney Studios
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Prestegard is a Senior Staff Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native video systems with eight years of focused experience designing end-to-end media workflows for major studios. At The Walt Disney Studios he architects forensic watermarking, multi-key 4K DRM, and HEVC encoding pipelines (SDR/HDR10/Dolby Vision), often integrating deep learning remastering tools and MovieLabs standards into scalable Kubernetes-based workflows. He combines hands-on engineering with product and leadership savvy, having led teams and infrastructure refreshes that materially reduced costs and improved capacity at Encompass and VUDU. Comfortable across Python, Java, Node, and extensive AWS services, he also applies practical DevOps and CI/CD patterns to drive resilient, automated media processing. Known inside industry circles as a "video nerd," he brings rare domain depth in both content-quality engineering and large-scale delivery economics — for example implementing JIT watermark delivery via Lambda@Edge and an automated origin purge that cut CDN origin costs by 80%.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Seabury HallUniversity of California Santa Cruz
English
Github Skills (154)
mingw10
openstack-swift10
aws-s310
libfdk-aac10
streaming10
docker-build10
playing10
flysystem10
audio10
batch10
ipcamera10
vaapi10
mpeg-dash10
srt10
cli10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
dprestegard/librist-docker
Nov 2020 - Jan 2021
A docker image of the sample binaries in librist
Contributions:1 release, 8 commits, 4 PRs in 1 month
dockerfiledocker-imagebuildkitdockerbinaries
dprestegard/mountpoint-s3
Jul 2023 - Jul 2023
A simple, high-throughput file client for mounting an Amazon S3 bucket as a local file system.
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
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