Jay Balcher
Disney Android Playback Principal at The Walt Disney Company
Beaverton, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Balcher is a seasoned Android engineer and strategic leader with 11 years of professional experience, currently serving as Disney Android Playback Principal for Disney+. He has guided teams and shipped cross-platform media experiences—from mobile and tablet to Android TV and Fire TV—playing a key role in launches like Star+ LATAM and major NHL app releases. Jay blends deep hands-on expertise in ExoPlayer, ProGuard, RxJava and playback UX with people leadership, having moved from individual contributor to engineering manager and principal roles within Disney. He has a strong track record of reducing technical debt, improving performance and stability, and instituting engineering practices like GitFlow and secure build pipelines. Based in Beaverton, Oregon, he brings a background of building mission-critical consumer and enterprise apps at companies including Nike, Skyward, and Control4. Less obvious: he often pairs product-facing UX enhancements with low-level optimizations, making features both delightful and efficient at scale.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Cincinnati
Github Skills (6)
simulator9
java8
android7
browser-app7
kotlin7
browser6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
balch/AuctionBrowser
Jan 2016 - May 2020
Android Ebay Browser App
Contributions:53 commits, 15 PRs, 205 pushes in 4 years 5 months
ebaybrowserbrowser-appandroidkotlin
balch/MockTrade
Sep 2014 - Feb 2019
Android Trade Simulator
Contributions:1 release, 39 commits, 26 PRs in 4 years 6 months
simulatorjavaandroidtrade
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