Zack Haigh
Senior Software Engineer - TV Player at Netflix
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarZack Haigh is a senior software engineer with a decade of experience building media-rich front-end experiences, currently focused on TV player engineering at Netflix. He has shipped video player UI and interaction improvements at scale—contributing to the widely used JW Player project by enhancing keyboard accessibility, control bar styles, and playback tooling. His recent roles at TikTok and Zoom underscore expertise in realtime and consumer-facing video products across web and TV platforms. Based in Bellevue, Washington, he blends creative direction roots with pragmatic engineering, enabling polished UX without sacrificing performance. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex playback requirements into intuitive controls and resilient implementations. An attention to accessibility and keyboard-driven workflows is a recurring, distinguishing theme across his open-source and product work.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (5)
html10
css10
javascript10
user-interface10
accessibility9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jwplayer/jwplayer
Feb 2019 - Apr 2022
JW Player is the world's most popular embeddable media player.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:183 reviews, 565 commits, 250 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Zack primarily focused on improving the user interface of the JW Player. Their contributions involved fixing errors, providing keyboard shortcut information and optimizing the keyboard shortcuts menu. Furthermore, they implemented fixes for various style issues with the control bar and implemented functionality such as play/pause and the next up tooltip.
html5-videoandroidmedia-playervideo-playermse
jwplayer/jwplayer-react
Feb 2022 - Mar 2022
Contributions:84 commits in 1 month
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