Rico Cordova
Founder at Rock Solid Box
Tampa, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRico Cordova is a seasoned engineering leader with over a decade of hands-on and managerial experience delivering large-scale video streaming, ad tech, and content delivery systems. As Director of Engineering for Samsung TV Plus, he leads five cross-border teams and aligns global product backlogs while overseeing security, budgets, and feasibility for monetization initiatives. Previously he grew Pluto TV’s video organization from a dozen engineers to 60+ while spearheading DRM, ABR, transcode pipelines and playback re-architecture efforts. His background in SRE and streaming at Verizon includes patented work on streaming/ad insertion and high-throughput, brokered ad services—evidence of his knack for inventing practical, scalable solutions. Comfortable switching between low-level systems and product strategy, he combines electrical engineering and mathematics training with a founder’s mindset from freelance and startup roles. Based in Tampa, Rico pairs deep domain expertise in media delivery with proven global team-building and operational rigor.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Electrical Engineering, B.S., Electrical Engineering at Walla Walla University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
testing9
django9
stream9
gunicorn6
version-control6
std6
dictionary6
save6
python6
fstream6
visualization5
static-analysis4
linter4
static-code-analysis3
signalfx3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ricomoss/django_fixtureless
Dec 2013 - Feb 2020
Fixtureless Testing Utility for Django
Contributions:75 commits, 8 PRs, 50 pushes in 6 years 3 months
djangotesting
ricomoss/july-2015-django-class
Jul 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 27 pushes in 2 years
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