Samuel East
Barry, Wales, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSamuel East is a media software engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience and 15 years of domain expertise building scalable streaming solutions for major platforms including NBC PeacockTV, Sky, NowTV and Vodafone. He specializes in end-to-end media systems—AWS media services, DRM (Widevine/PlayReady/FairPlay), HLS/DASH workflows, and playback optimizations—routinely improving metrics like video start time and rebuffering on constrained devices. Comfortable across full-stack JS/TypeScript, Electron and cloud automation, he has built production encoding tools, live workflows and studio-approved DRM integrations while founding a media-focused startup that distributed millions of player instances monthly. Samuel thrives in fast-paced, cross-disciplinary teams and often bridges engineering, product and operations to streamline delivery and KPIs. Based in Barry, Wales, he combines entrepreneurial grit with deep streaming craft and a knack for squeezing performance from legacy hardware.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Interactive Digital Media, Bachelor's degree, Interactive Digital Media at Swansea University / Prifysgol Abertawe9 GCSEs (A–C) including English, Maths, Sciences, 9 GCSEs (A–C) including English, Maths, Sciences at John Colet SchoolBachelor of Arts, Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia, Bachelor of Arts, Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia at Swansea Metropolitan UniversityHigher National Diploma, Music Technology, Higher National Diploma, Music Technology at Swansea
English
Github Skills (159)
videojs10
javascript10
html10
html5-video10
aws-sdk-js-v310
aws-sdk10
video-player10
video-on-demand10
html5-audio10
aws10
player10
video-conversion9
camera9
mediarecorder9
php9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
DevLight1/Streamium-Netflix-Theme
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:7 commits in 12 days
netflixwordpresswordpress-themein-progresswork-in-progress
samueleastdev/prototyping
Sep 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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