Jeremy Lacivita
Technical Product Director, App Integration, Distribution And Platform
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeremy Lacivita is a seasoned technical product leader with 11+ years shaping OTT/IPTV platforms and APIs, currently directing App Integration, Distribution, and Platform at Comcast from Philadelphia. He combines hands-on engineering chops and end-to-end architecture with product stewardship—leading teams that built high-scale OTT services (millions concurrent, 13.4k TPS) and unified global platform roadmaps. Jeremy has driven cross-organization rationalization, launched open governance for Firebolt, and delivered interoperable API solutions across operator devices like Xumo and Sky. He pairs rigorous requirements engineering and training for product teams with pragmatic delivery, having improved player performance and reduced playback errors through SDK and player redesigns. An active contributor to hls.js, he implemented CEA-708 caption parsing and timeline handling, reflecting deep video standards and implementation expertise. Jeremy’s mix of stakeholder-facing product leadership and low-level media engineering makes him adept at translating complex broadcast standards into scalable, interoperable platform features.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Drexel University
Github Skills (6)
html10
video-streaming10
javascript10
hlsl10
360-video10
streaming10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
video-dev/hls.js
Dec 2015 - May 2016
HLS.js is a JavaScript library that plays HLS in browsers with support for MSE.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 3 PRs, 37 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Jeremy implemented CEA-708 caption parsing and rendering within the HLS.js library, focusing on integrating these captions into the video playback. They modified the TSDemuxer to correctly parse SEI packets containing CEA-708 data and created a TimelineController to handle cue creation based on this parsed data. The user also added functionality for backspace commands, and began handling multi-level caption messages, reflecting a deep understanding of closed caption standards and the HLS.js architecture.
hlsjshls-streamplaybackhtml5stream
rdkcentral/firebolt-schemas
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
A repository for Firebolt schemas for configuration and global types
Contributions:24 reviews, 46 commits, 14 PRs in 9 months
fireboltschemas
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