Jonty U
Head Of Product Design, YouTube Business Technology at Google
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonty U is a product and design leader with 11 years of technology experience who now heads Product Design for YouTube Business Technology at Google, after moving from software engineering into product management. He combines a strong engineering foundation—built at BBC News Labs and on open-source MPEG-DASH work improving adaptive bitrate playback—with hands-on product leadership across YouTube partnerships and internal operational tooling. His background in mechanical and naval engineering, plus early leadership in the Army Officer Training Corps, gives him a systems-thinking approach to complex operational problems. At Google he translates low-level performance trade-offs into intuitive UX for internal users, while running a cross-functional design team. Known for pragmatic delivery, he brings rare depth in video streaming internals alongside product craft and stakeholder management.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Mechanical Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Mechanical Engineering at University of Bath
Github Skills (6)
stream10
mediasource10
javascript10
360-video10
streaming10
front-end-development9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Dash-Industry-Forum/dash.js
Sep 2016 - Jan 2017
A reference client implementation for the playback of MPEG DASH via Javascript and compliant browsers.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 9 PRs, 5 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jonty primarily focused on improving the performance and functionality of the dash.js player's adaptive bitrate (ABR) controller. They implemented and refactored code related to video element sizing and playback rate, ensuring responsiveness and correct behavior during window resizes and seeks. Additionally, the user addressed bugs and added features to improve the efficiency of segment handling and buffering strategies within the player's core streaming logic, ensuring a smoother user experience. The contributions also involve the development of the API for portal size updates.
msswebrtcplaybackvideomse
BBC-News-Labs/audiogram
Mar 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 18 PRs, 188 pushes in 1 year 2 months
share-audiobuildsmp4platformsyoutube
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