Vishal Shah
Director, Video Engineering at Paramount
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVishal Shah is a video engineering leader with 9 years of experience building scalable VoD and SSAI systems, currently serving as Director of Video Engineering at Paramount after a multi-role progression there. He began his career at Brightcove, where four-plus years focused on video delivery and server-side ad insertion honed his expertise in Go and large-scale backend architecture. Vishal combines hands-on development and QA rigor—evident from contributions to the widely used shaka-packager project improving WebVTT/DASH parsing and encryption handling—with proven people and delivery leadership. Holding an MS in Computer Science from Arizona State University and based in Salt Lake City, he brings both deep protocol-level media know-how and pragmatic product delivery experience to complex streaming problems.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at Ganpat UniversityMaster of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University
Gujarati, Hindi, English
Github Skills (5)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
mpeg-dash10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
shaka-project/shaka-packager
Jan 2021 - Jun 2022
A media packaging and development framework for VOD and Live DASH and HLS applications, supporting Common Encryption for Widevine and other DRM Systems.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 6 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Vishal primarily focused on improving the WebVTT and DASH handling within the shaka-packager project. Their contributions included supporting text alignments, correcting alignment tags, and fixing parsing issues. They also addressed a bug related to text stream encryption and added a description role for audio DVS tracks. The changes involved modifications to core parsing logic and test updates for WebVTT format.
hls-streamwidevinevideohttp-live-streamingvod
vish91/shaka-packager
Jan 2021 - Feb 2024
A media packaging and development framework for VOD and Live DASH and HLS applications, supporting Common Encryption for Widevine and other DRM Systems.
Contributions:30 pushes, 18 branches, 4 tags in 3 years 1 month
voddashvmsdrmpackaging
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