Joe Drago
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Drago is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building robust systems from game engines to large-scale media platforms, currently based in San Jose and working at Netflix. He brings deep C/C++ and systems-level expertise honed across game studios (Locomotive, Cryptic, Atari) and network programming roles, with a knack for platform and tooling leadership. At Netflix he applies that background to reliable, production-quality engineering, emphasizing portability and build stability. An active open-source contributor, Joe has improved libavif’s cross-platform build and AV1 integration, showing attention to compatibility and compiler hygiene. Colleagues know him for quietly fixing tricky build and warning issues that prevent outages and ease long-term maintenance. He combines pragmatic engineering with a history of leading core tech efforts in performance-sensitive domains.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Santa Teresa High
Github Skills (5)
c1710
build-system10
avif10
c1110
code-optimization9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
AOMediaCodec/libavif
Jul 2019 - Sep 2021
libavif - Library for encoding and decoding .avif files
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:153 reviews, 44 commits, 418 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Joe primarily focused on improving the codebase of the libavif library. Their contributions include fixing clang warnings and addressing build issues, showing a focus on code quality and portability. They also updated the build scripts to clone and integrate the aom library, facilitating AV1 encoding capabilities. Additionally, the user updated the libaom version and made changes to the code to ensure compatibility and fix warnings.
file-formatdecodingavifc99decoder
joedrago/dyn
Jul 2012 - Jul 2015
Contributions:40 commits, 2 pushes in 3 years
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