Jonathan Colwell
Senior Director - Video Engineering at Fox Corporation
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Colwell is a Senior Director of Video Engineering with over a decade of experience designing and modernizing high-performance, resilient media and telecom services. He has led engineering teams at Fox, Comcast, and thePlatform to deliver mission-critical streaming, syndication, and commerce systems that handle billions of requests and multimillion-dollar revenue streams. Jonathan excels at transforming legacy stacks to cloud-native architectures, improving observability, and instituting alerting that prevents noise and protects team focus. He combines deep troubleshooting instincts with pragmatic design—often favoring Go and AWS-driven solutions to gain efficiency and scalability. Notable wins include building Fox’s Real Time Listing Manager and enabling Emmy-standard switching and UHD broadcast scaling for major live events. Based in Seattle, he pairs hands-on technical leadership with a strong commitment to mentoring engineers and advancing reliable, measurable systems.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mechanical Engineering, BS Mechanical Engineering at University of Washington
Github Skills (4)
modeling9
golang6
sdk1
usability1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Comcast/scte224structs
Jun 2017 - Oct 2021
Utilities for modeling SCTE-224 data in Go
Contributions:7 releases, 5 reviews, 99 commits in 4 years 4 months
golangmodelingscte
superflaco/gots
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
MPEG Transport Stream handling in Go
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
golangstreaminghandlingstreamtransport-stream
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