John Bowers
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Provo, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Bowers is a Senior Software Engineer with 12+ years building robust, production-grade systems across Unix, macOS, mobile, and cloud platforms, currently contributing at Amazon Web Services after a senior engineering role at Twitch. He has deep expertise in streaming, DRM (Widevine, PlayReady, FairPlay), and media platform integrations, having led engineering for Verizon Media’s DRM and live syndication efforts. Comfortable from low-level Unix and Kerberos integrations to end-user iOS apps, he favors elegant, maintainable solutions that solve real customer problems. Known for shipping complex features—DASH/HLS integration and custom player SDKs—he blends hands-on coding with engineering leadership. Based in Provo, Utah, he brings a pragmatic systems mindset rooted in early work on authentication, PAM modules, and macOS security integrations.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Associates Computer Science, Associates Computer Science at Utah Valley UniversityBachelors Computer Science - Bioinformatics, Bachelors Computer Science - Bioinformatics at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (43)
studio10
live-streaming10
javascript10
drm10
offline-mode10
broadcasting10
directshow10
ffmpeg10
streaming-video10
obs10
facebook-live10
screen-recording10
html5-audio10
recording10
audio10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jhnbwrs/Base64Project
Mar 2014 - Nov 2017
Contributions:2 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
Uplynk/ExoPlayer
Jun 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:3 commits in 9 months
androidkotlinmedia-playerextensibleplayer
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