Nicholas Brookins
Senior Vice President, Media Engineering at The Walt Disney Company
Encinitas, California, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Brookins is a senior media engineering executive who has shaped streaming technology and adaptive bitrate ecosystems for over two decades, currently leading Media Engineering for Disney Entertainment & ESPN. He combines deep hands-on expertise in video encoding, content protection, CDN strategy, playback/ABR logic, and distributed systems with a proven record of shipping large-scale, cross-functional platforms at Disney Streaming, Hulu, and Akamai. Nick is equally comfortable architecting core media pipelines and rolling up his sleeves to code or prototype solutions, reflecting his background as a founder and longtime technologist. Based in Encinitas, he brings a rare blend of product-minded creativity and operational rigor, with notable contributions spanning compression, packaging, ad insertion, QoS measurement, and media orchestration.
9 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Magnet program, Robotics and Automation, Magnet program, Robotics and Automation at Kettering University
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Github Skills (26)
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Github contributions (5)
nbrookins/danger-finger
Jun 2017 - Jan 2020
Source code related to my DIY 3d printable prosthetic device
Contributions:5 commits, 82 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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nbrookins/danger-gadgets
Jun 2017 - Apr 2026
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 11 months
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