Joey Ekstrom
Owner at Ekstech, LLC
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoey Ekstrom is a video streaming specialist and founder with 11 years of focused experience architecting end-to-end internet video systems from encoding through secure delivery. Based in Portland, he built and led core teams at Sling TV that launched one of the first live OTT TV services in the U.S., then founded Ekstech to consult on HLS/DASH/SRT workflows, DRM integrations (Widevine, FairPlay, PlayReady), and AWS Elemental automation. He combines systems-level engineering—C/C++/Python roots and work on dynamic packagers and keystores—with modern containerized deployments using Docker, Nix, Kubernetes and AWS ECR/ECS. Joey also contributes to open-source video projects like libcaption and HLS.js, showing a sustained commitment to improving streaming tooling. Uncommonly, he blends deep protocol-level expertise with hands-on cross-platform app development in React Native, making him effective across both backend infrastructure and client playback challenges.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (35)
javascript10
linux10
http-live-streaming10
stream10
hlsjs10
playback10
player10
video-streaming10
mediasource10
streaming10
dvb9
nix9
react-native-component9
nixos9
epg9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jcekstrom/nixpkgs
Apr 2024 - Aug 2025
Nix Packages collection & NixOS
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
jcekstrom/jcekstrom
Jun 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:5 pushes in 2 years
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