Jesús Oliva
Chief Technology Officer & EVP Mission at Haivision
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolJesús Oliva is a seasoned technology executive and founder with over a decade of experience architecting real-time video, embedded systems, and AI-at-the-edge solutions. As CTO and EVP Mission at Haivision he leads R&D for edge encoders, rugged hardware and cloud platforms, having scaled high-performance teams that blend software, electronics and systems engineering. He previously co-founded LightFlow—applying AI to optimize end-to-end video streaming—which was acquired by Haivision, and co-founded Epic Labs, a media-focused innovation consultancy. His hands-on background includes device-focused media engineering at Akamai and contributions to the popular dash.js MPEG-DASH player, where he fixed DRM and captioning issues. Based in Madrid, Jesús combines strategic product vision with low-level technical depth, often shipping solutions that bridge client playback, encoding and multi‑CDN delivery. He’s known for bringing out the best in teams and turning complex streaming challenges into operational, mission-ready products.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master Telecommunications Engineering, Master Telecommunications Engineering at Universidad de Alcalá
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
media-playback10
video-player10
playback10
videojs10
mpeg-dash10
java9
bitmap9
android9
html9
arm6
android-ndk6
media-player6
cpu-architecture6
windows6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Dash-Industry-Forum/dash.js
Sep 2017 - Dec 2019
A reference client implementation for the playback of MPEG DASH via Javascript and compliant browsers.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:300 commits, 6 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jesús's contributions primarily focused on fixing bugs and making improvements within the JavaScript-based MPEG-DASH player, `dash.js`. Their commits addressed argument mismatches in the webkitAddKey function, which involved modifying protection models related to DRM functionality. Additionally, the user implemented a filter method to handle unsupported codecs and corrected issues related to text track management, including the video size check timer and caption rendering.
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jeoliva/mpegts-basic-parser
Feb 2015 - Jan 2023
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes in 8 years
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