Gerard Solé
Backend Director at Kidoodle.TV®
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolGerard Solé is a seasoned backend and streaming engineering leader with 12 years of experience building media ingestion, encoding, DRM, and delivery systems from Barcelona. Currently Backend Director at Kidoodle.TV and Head of Backend and Streaming at Laminar Global, he combines hands-on engineering with architecture and technical leadership across playback, multi‑CDN delivery, and QoE/QoS monitoring. His career at Rakuten TV saw him merge delivery and encoding domains into a multidisciplinary Playback Team and lead in-house DRM licensing, IMF tooling, and VOD2Live scheduling. Comfortable across Python, Ruby, .NET and media toolchains like FFmpeg and H264/H265/DASH/HLS, he pairs deep domain expertise with operational tooling that empowers SRE and ops teams. He also has research experience in AST-based code translation and a history of secure mobile work (including an Android Libsodium JNI binding). Pragmatic and detail-oriented, Gerard thrives on turning complex media workflows into reliable, scalable production systems.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Catalan, English, Spanish
Github Skills (200)
macports10
terraform10
terraform-module10
mean10
mongoose10
audio10
scaffold10
rq10
subtitle10
macos10
package-manager10
vtt10
terraform-provider10
ports10
aws10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
RouteInjector/ri-backoffice
Oct 2016 - Sep 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 39 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years
GerardSoleCa/pdfocr
Mar 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
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