Zachary Cava
Vice President, Product Engineering Architecture at Freelancing
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZachary Cava is a seasoned software engineering leader with 13 years of experience, currently shaping architecture and platform strategy for Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology. He leads global cross-functional teams to align media, metadata, and distribution systems that power Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+ and broader syndication, driving scalability, innovation, and product velocity. Known for cutting through organizational ambiguity, he blends hands-on technical stewardship with executive-level vision to deliver cohesive engineering platforms. Active in industry standards work, he chairs CTA WAVE interoperability efforts and has driven DASH-HLS interoperability initiatives that influence streaming ad and delivery ecosystems. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he pairs a Computer Science and Mathematics background from the University of Washington with a history of practical developer-focused leadership across streaming and ad technologies.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Mathematics at University of Washington
English
Github Skills (89)
mss10
drm10
monitoring10
javascript10
playback10
video-streaming10
html5-video10
eme10
mpeg-dash10
vod10
points10
offline-mode10
mse10
video-player10
xsd10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
technogeek00/gulp-lcov-to-html
Nov 2015 - Aug 2017
Pure javascript implementation of LCOV's genhtml function for use in gulp
Contributions:6 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
genhtmlgulp-plugingulplcovjavascript
technogeek00/advent-of-code
Dec 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:50 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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