Roger Huix
Principal Engineer at JWP (JW Player)
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolRoger Huix is a Principal Engineer based in Barcelona with nine years of backend and microservices-focused experience, currently leading engineering and architecture efforts at JW Player. He combines a business- and customer-first mindset with hands-on ability to design scalable systems from scratch and modernize existing platforms, including building highly scalable Kubernetes clusters and DRM-enabled video services. His progression from junior developer to technical lead, staff engineer, engineering manager and now principal reflects both deep technical craft and team leadership. Comfortable engaging directly with clients and product teams, he blends practical consultancy with delivery-oriented engineering to solve complex streaming and VOD challenges.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Computing and IT, BSc (Hons) Computing and IT at Open UniversityUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Catalan, Spanish, English
Github Skills (31)
playback10
drm9
video-player9
mse9
player9
vod9
video-streaming9
docker-compose8
javascript8
offline-mode8
lib7
html5-audio7
ruby7
manifest7
rails7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jwplayer/m3u8
Feb 2023 - Jan 2025
Parser and generator of M3U8-playlists for Apple HLS. Library for Go language. :cinema:
Contributions:4 releases, 4 reviews, 15 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Vualto/ExoPlayer
Sep 2020 - Nov 2021
An extensible media player for Android
Contributions:4 PRs, 10 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 3 months
mediaplayerandroidkotlinmedia-playerextensible
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