Joe Foraci
HBO Max Video Streaming
United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJoe Foraci is a seasoned video engineer with 8+ years at HBO, currently focused on HBO Max streaming architecture and media workflows. He has driven the shift to a fully digital supply chain—designing and implementing systems for transcoding, loudness correction, captioning, packaging, DRM and delivery—and led integrations with partners like MLBAM and Amazon. Prior roles as technical lead and solutions architect emphasize his strengths in end-to-end media origination, automation (including automatic screening and air master format design), and operational efficiency. His background spans software engineering across enterprise and healthcare domains, and he brings a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach informed by early work on DICOM-compliant imaging and automated 3D dosimetry tools.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 3.67, cum laude, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 3.67, cum laude at Stony Brook University
English, Italian
Github Skills (20)
widevine9
video-encoding9
bug-reporting9
hls-stream9
vms9
vod8
mocking8
doctest8
drm8
unit-testing8
testing8
google7
encryption7
streaming7
googletest6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jforaci/mxf-reader
Apr 2018 - Dec 2021
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
jforaci/jpathfinder
Apr 2018 - Sep 2022
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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