Thiago Pontes
Live Streaming Engineer at Netflix
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolThiago Pontes is a Live Streaming Engineer with 11 years of experience building and optimizing video playback systems for major media platforms, currently working on live streaming at Netflix after six years focused on video playback at Vimeo. He brings deep engineering experience across front-end and backend domains, from refactoring web media players (notably contributions to the popular open-source Clappr player) to scaling playback infrastructure at large publishers like The New York Times and Globo.com. Comfortable moving between SASS/webpack front-end modernization and backend playback challenges, Thiago has a track record of pragmatic refactors that improve maintainability and delivery. Based in New York, he combines an academic foundation in information systems from Universidade Federal da Paraíba with hands-on research and early-career sensor-validation work. Colleagues describe him as a detail-oriented engineer who prefers modular, testable solutions and isn’t afraid to rework legacy styling or build tooling to make systems more robust.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Sistemas de Informação, Bachelor's degree Sistemas de Informação at Universidade Federal da Paraíba
Portuguese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
css10
sass10
webpack10
webpacker10
javascript9
html8
html5-video8
video-player8
360-video7
heroku6
go6
api6
sinatra6
github6
ruby6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
clappr/clappr
Jul 2015 - Oct 2022
:clapper: An extensible media player for the web.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:67 commits, 24 PRs, 73 pushes in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Thiago's contributions primarily revolve around removing JST.CSS and implementing component-specific styles using SASS and CSS, as evidenced by their commit messages. They updated webpack configurations to manage the build process for these styles and refactored code in various plugins to incorporate the new styling approach. The user's work involved modifying numerous files to remove older style definitions and replace them with a more modern and modular approach using SASS, which impacted the presentation of the media player.
dashhtml5-audiohtml5-videomp4javascript
thiagopnts/nvim
Apr 2020 - Jun 2022
Contributions:72 commits, 30 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
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