Orry Verducci
Lead Broadcast Support Engineer at News UK
Ely, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolOrry Verducci is a Lead Broadcast Support Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience delivering 24/7 live TV and radio operations, currently overseeing technical support for News UK’s television and radio brands. He combines deep broadcast systems expertise—from IP routing, playout automation and encoders to Dante audio and monitoring—with people management and vendor strategy to keep multi-channel operations resilient. A pragmatic engineer who rose through transmission and studio roles, Orry also contributes to open-source (notably Jellyfin), where he improved media encoding and deinterlacing features, reflecting a rare blend of operational rigor and software development. Based in Ely, he brings a track record of practical automation, shift-ready leadership and a knack for turning complex broadcast problems into maintainable solutions.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
A Levels - Business Studies, Computing, Physics, Maths, Academic Research Course, A Levels - Business Studies, Computing, Physics, Maths, Academic Research Course at Hills Road Sixth Form CollegeBachelor's Degree, Digital Broadcast Technology, Bachelor's Degree, Digital Broadcast Technology at The University of SalfordGCSEs, GCSEs at Soham Village College
Github Skills (16)
html10
video-processing10
net10
asp-net10
jellyfin10
javascript10
dotnet10
web-development10
mp410
csharp10
encoding10
h26410
dotnet-core10
ffmpeg9
media8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jellyfin/jellyfin
Aug 2020 - Dec 2021
The Free Software Media System - Server Backend & API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 14 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Orry primarily focused on improving the media encoding functionality within the Jellyfin project. Their contributions included adding a double-rate deinterlacing option and integrating the bwdif deinterlacing method, as well as applying the double-rate option to hardware deinterlacers. The user also addressed frame rate probing issues for interlaced MKV files and refactored code for improved functionality. Furthermore, the user added interlace detection for H.264 files.
backendjellyfincsharpdotnet
jellyfin/jellyfin-web
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
The Free Software Media System - Official Web Client
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR in 24 days
Contributions summary:Orry primarily contributed to the web client's user interface, specifically focusing on enhancements to the encoding settings. Their work involved adding and modifying options related to video deinterlacing, including adding new methods (Bwdif), and implementing double-rate deinterlacing, while also removing outdated options. These changes required modifications to HTML, JavaScript (specifically the controller), and potentially related UI components.
web-clientvideosreactjellyfin
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