Summary
Henry Demirchian is a founder and engineering leader with 13+ years of hands-on experience building and modernizing streaming video platforms for NBCUniversal, Disney, and CBS. He combines deep playback architecture and cloud-native infrastructure expertise with a track record of measurable business impact—reducing buffering 75%, cutting start times 68%, and delivering features that materially grew ARR. Henry excels at scaling cross-functional teams, developer tooling, and CI/CD automation to accelerate delivery while improving resiliency and observability. He’s known for spotting platform-level constraints (notably on Roku), convincing stakeholders to adopt modular architectures, and executing staged rollouts that balance risk and speed. Beyond shipping products, he drives inclusive hiring, mentorship, and internal training programs that build lasting engineering capability. Now leading AI Help Desk as Founder/CEO in Los Angeles, he blends OTT domain knowledge with startup product and automation focus.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Engineering Management, MS, Engineering Management at California State University, Northridge
Russian, Armenian, English