Tony Godar
Senior Engineering Manager at Roku Inc.
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTony Godar is a Senior Engineering Manager based in London with 9 years in leadership roles and over two decades of hands-on engineering experience across streaming media, VR, and consumer devices. He currently leads teams at Roku and previously drove TV and smart speaker product development at Napster, building high-performance playback systems and immersive music experiences. Tony’s background at Sony Interactive Entertainment includes deep expertise in MPEG-DASH, HLS, PlayReady and VR video, where he combined low-level C/C++ optimization with product-focused prototyping that became commercial releases. He’s known for creating fast-moving, fun teams that ship complex media systems and for mentoring engineers from prototype to production. A pragmatic technologist with a penchant for creative problem-solving, he also has a history of early-stage engineering—from PS2 game dev to launching PlayTV DVR—revealing a pattern of shipping ambitious, ahead-of-their-time products. Look at the dots: his career blends media codecs, platform engineering, and product vision in ways that repeatedly disrupt entertainment experiences.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Analyst Programmer, Computer Software Engineering, 3.97 GPA, Computer Analyst Programmer, Computer Software Engineering, 3.97 GPA at Red River College
Japanese
Github Skills (18)
arcore6
oculus5
stream4
arkit4
virtual-reality4
openxr4
react4
android3
gear-vr3
transform3
ios3
augmented-reality3
react-native3
oculus-quest3
360-video3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
OpenToInnovate/ARhythm
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:21 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 20 days
OpenToInnovate/OpenToInnovate.github.io
May 2017 - Jan 2025
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 8 months
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