Jason Dove
Lead Software Engineer at Disney Streaming
Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolJason Dove is a Lead Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building backend systems and streaming media infrastructure, currently driving technical direction at Disney Streaming. He has a strong history of progressive leadership from developer to architect and director roles, and deep expertise in media server and playlist handling demonstrated by contributions to well-known open-source projects like Jellyfin and ErsatzTV. Jason focuses on resilient API design, authentication/authorization edge cases, and efficient media indexing and HLS playlist generation. Based in Wisconsin, he blends hands-on coding with team leadership to ship production-grade features at scale, and often surfaces small but impactful improvements—like clearer code comments and targeted null-safety fixes—that reduce friction for future maintainers.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
http-streaming10
apidoc10
net10
dotnet10
http-live-streaming10
ffmpeg10
jellyfin10
asp-net10
api10
hls-stream10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
authentication9
data-management9
database-administration9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ErsatzTV/legacy
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
Open-source platform that transforms your personal media library into live, custom TV channels.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:143 releases, 38 reviews, 1015 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the back-end aspects of the project, focusing on the core functionality of the ErsatzTV application. They implemented features related to video segment management, added support for indexing music video data to the search index. They also improved the handling of HLS playlists, including fixing bugs in playlist filtering, and improved logic related to error handling and playlist generation. Furthermore, they integrated new functionalities to allow better control and display information to users like the ability to display a channel's audio stream.
media-library
jellyfin/jellyfin
Jun 2022 - Jul 2022
The Free Software Media System - Server Backend & API
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 6 commits, 1 PR in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the back-end of the Jellyfin media server project, focusing on API modifications. They implemented changes to the items API, specifically addressing user authentication and authorization by allowing API keys to bypass the need for a user ID. They updated comments for clarity and addressed warnings by using the null-forgiving operator. The user also made minor code adjustments and merged branches.
backendjellyfincsharpdotnet
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