Joe Natalzia
Apple Media Products, Staff UI Engineer
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Natalzia is a Staff UI Engineer at Apple Media Products with 12 years of experience building polished, production-ready front-end experiences for large-scale media applications. Previously an engineering manager at JW Player, he contributed significant UI improvements to that widely used embeddable media player—adding multi-language support, refining controls like the volume slider, and resolving fullscreen and shortcut bugs. He combines hands-on implementation skills with product-minded leadership, having shipped responsive, breakpoint-aware layouts and plugin features across teams. Based in New York and trained in New Media Interactive Development at RIT, Joe brings a blend of design sensitivity and engineering rigor that helps multimedia products feel both delightful and reliable.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, New Media Interactive Development, Bachelor's degree, New Media Interactive Development at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (7)
uid10
javascript10
lessc10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
css9
html8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jwplayer/jwplayer
Sep 2017 - Aug 2020
JW Player is the world's most popular embeddable media player.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:237 commits, 153 PRs, 283 pushes in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Joe contributed significantly to the JW Player repository, focusing on enhancements to the player's user interface and functionality. Their work included adding and consolidating the implementation of the related plugin's auto-advance feature. Further, they added support for multiple languages, improved the appearance of the volume slider and tooltip, and adjusted the layout of the player based on the current breakpoint. They also fixed bugs such as a fullscreen and shortcut menu issues.
html5-videoandroidmedia-playervideo-playermse
jnatalzia/snzbtn
Feb 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:54 commits in 3 months
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