Steve Slotnick is a seasoned technology leader and current CTO in Seattle with nine years of senior engineering and management experience building scalable media and e-commerce systems. He has led teams at Yardstone and Warner Bros. Discovery and spent a decade-plus at Amazon driving high-impact products like Instant Video, DRM and predictive caching (ASAP) features and large-scale deal and email platforms. Steve combines hands-on systems architecture—designing video ingestion, transcoding and QoS pipelines—with executive leadership across startups and enterprise media operations. He has a track record of shipping high-throughput, production-grade services that survived peak holiday and live-video demand and includes inventor credit on patented optimization work. Comfortable moving between product, ops, and engineering strategy, he brings practical creativity to performance and reliability challenges. His background spans early-career web service design at Amazon to directing technical strategy for streaming at iStreamPlanet and Warner Bros., giving him a rare blend of startup agility and large-org rigor.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Michigan
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