Rafik Mikhael
Senior Software Engineer, Tags Distributions at KERV.ai
Livermore, California, United States
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Top SchoolRafik Mikhael is a Senior Golang Engineer with 8+ years of experience building high-performance video and ad-insertion infrastructure for streaming platforms, currently at Rumble after roles at Crunchyroll and FOX Tech. He combines deep DSP and codec expertise (HEVC, H.264, MPEG2) with practical systems engineering—designing microservices on AWS, optimizing real-time transcoding, and shipping SSAI/CSAI solutions. Rafik’s background in algorithm design and constrained optimization has delivered measurable gains like up to 40% channel-density improvements and patented video-analysis features. He practices BDD/TDD and brings embedded-systems sensibilities to cloud-native services, often implementing low-level filter and encoder optimizations alongside Golang service design. An MBA and an M.Sc. in DSP inform his ability to bridge technical strategy, product constraints, and operational requirements.
8 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. EE, DSP, M.Sc. EE, DSP at University of VictoriaB.Sc. Electronics and Electrical Communications, B.Sc. Electronics and Electrical Communications at Ain Shams UniversityMaster of Business Administration (MBA) Finance, Strategy and Leadership, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Finance, Strategy and Leadership at Santa Clara University
English, Arabic, French
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Github Skills (24)
drm10
stream10
mp410
vod10
mss9
streaming9
video-streaming9
nginx9
testing7
bdd7
sidecar6
golang5
aws5
go5
aws-sdk5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
crunchyroll/evs-s3helper
Sep 2018 - May 2021
A sample sidecar application that uses role based creds to talk to S3
Contributions:21 reviews, 6 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years 7 months
sidecar
crunchyroll/nginx-vod-module
Feb 2018 - Nov 2022
Contributions:5 reviews, 76 commits, 106 PRs in 4 years 9 months
nginxmp4
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