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Jason Byrne

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    Job History

    Echelon Fitness
    Echelon Fitness May 2021 - Present
    Chief Technology Officer
    Passed my year mark at this connected fitness company, doing hundreds of millions in revenue. I lead the software engineering, QA, Cloud Infrastructure, and Data/BI teams. On a day-to-day basis I work hand-in-hand with product management. I am part of the exec leadership at Echelon Fitness, regular working with membership, marketing, content, music rights, accounting, information technology, and other teams. I work with vendors, outsourced teams, create budgets, hiring and on-boarding, career development, hold one-on-ones and skip levels. I still get my hands dirty with code or help developers through issues. Creating architecture documents and proof of concepts, and picking up side tickets myself to keep the team focused.
    #executive# fitness# streaming video# qa# devops# data pipeline# bi
    FloSports
    FloSports 2013 - 2021
    Vice President, Engineering
    Spent 8 years as VPE at this D2C broadcaster, growing the product/engineering team from two to 60, over multiple rounds of funding. I managed with various software engineering teams and the network operations center. My role also encompassed cheif architect and head of R&D. New initiatives typically started at my desk. I oversaw training and career development and was part of the senior leadership team. My efforts kick started QA automation, our sports data initiatives, and all things related to video production, streaming, and content delivery.
    #startup# streaming video# sports# leadership# growth# funding
    MileSplit
    MileSplit 2001-2013
    Founder/CEO
    Founded the Florida Runners and MileSplit in college. Grew to become the #1 track & field website in the country, before my 2013 exit to join FloSports. The network has journalists around the country with portals in every state. The database includes virtually every high school runner for the past two decades, with hundreds of millions of performances across tens of millions of athletes. That data can be efficiently crunched to produce rankings with granular filters. We were pioneers in covering high school sports online and were one of the earliest sites to successfully sell subscriptions to end users, starting in 2005.
    #entrepreneur# sports# journalism# big data# customer focus# innovator
    Florida Industrial Scale
    Florida Industrial Scale 2004-2008
    IT Director
    Developed CRM application that managed the entire business: payables, receivables, inventory, sales pipeline, orders, and service. It synced wirelessly to a companion application running on tablets in the field. We ended up spinning it off as a separate company; it was sold to others in the industry for $10,000-30,000 per installation. In addition ran IT operations including servers, network, VPN to branch offices, support, backups, web site, and updates.
    #network admin# hardware# servers# database admin# service industry# software development# crm

    Speaking Engagements

    Akamai TV @ NAB 2019 Akamai TV @ NAB 2019
    Orlando Devs Meet Up March 3, 2022
    Spoke to a group of around 50 local developers about Nest Js and Echelon's transition to it from our legacy API.
    Taking Your Time Podcast July 5, 2021
    I was a guest on this podcast to discuss my story and time management tips. On this discussion, I talk about "defensive scheduling" where you proactively use your schedule as a weapon. Plenty of references to Echelon Fitness, FloSports, MileSplit, and some of my favorite books: 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and Lean Startup.
    Sports OTT Forum April 29, 2021 Panelist, Hosted by SVG
    "OTT 2.0: The Cloud, Automation, Monitoring Drive Sports Streaming Efficiency" With larger audience and year-round subscriber bases and a greater portfolio of live events to support, what are sports content distributors leaning on to scale up their offerings? From delivery through the cloud to APIs and SDKs to streaming protocols to more advanced and hands-on monitoring, what tools, layers, and services are taking live sports streaming into the new generation?
    Greed Geek Podcast February 2021
    Hosted nine episodes of a weekly podcast on investing, business, and entrepreneurship.
    Orlando Devs Meetup February 22, 2021
    "Goodbye Lambda, Hello Kubernetes" Virtual developer meet-up, discussing our migration from AWS Lambda to Google Cloud and Kubernetes at FloSports.
    Streaming Media Webinar October 22, 2020 Hosted by CloudFlare
    "The Future of Video Streaming on the Edge with Serverless Computing, featuring FloSports" Learn how FloSports leverages Cloudflare's serverless platform to customize their code and deploy it to the edge so viewers across the world can seamlessly watch their live sports streaming.
    Flagpole Webinar April 24, 2020
    Virtual developer meet-up during COVID, hosted on Twitch, discussing the my open source QA Automation project called Flagpole.
    OTT Day May 27, 2019 Panelist at NYC Conference
    "When Smaller is Bigger: How Niche Streaming Services Take On the OTT Giants," Spoke on a panel of digital media executives at a conference hosted by 24i at Yotel in Manhattan.
    Akamai TV Interview April 26, 2019 On Stage @ NAB in Las Vegas
    "Live Sports: Managing Rapid Growth" - On stage at the Akamai booth in Las Vegas at the National Association of Broadcasters convention.
    Seminole County: Birth of a County August 22, 2018
    Local history presentation in Altamonte Springs

    Languages and Frameworks

    #TypeScript# JavaScript# Node# Angular# Nest JS# PHP# Cloudflare Workers# VB.NET# Roku BrightScript# Alexa Skills# Electron# Serverless# SQL# HTML# CSS# LESS# SASS# Docker# ElasticSearch# Svelte# Flash ActionScript# Firebase# Firestore# jQuery# Varnish VCL

    Databases, ELT and Caching

    #MySQL# Aurora# Redis# Memcache# Firebase# Firestore# Mongo# Sphinx# ElasticSearch# SQLite# Access# MS SQL Server# Neo4J# DynamoDB# BigQuery# RedShift# Snowflake# Fivetran# Segment# Glue

    AWS

    #EC2# RDS# ELB# EBS# SNS# SQS# ElastiCache# Route53# SES# S3# CloudFront# CloudFront Functions# SAM# CDK# Lambda# [email protected]# API Gateway# Step Functions# Dynamo# Secrets Manager# Glue# Kinesis# Athena# Elemental# Elastic Transcoder# Cloud Search# OpenSearch# IoT# EventBridge# Personalize

    Google Cloud

    #Firebase# Firestore# Functions# Hosting# Storage# GKE# Image Recognition# Auth# ML# Data Studio# BigQuery# PubSub

    Other Cloud Platforms

    #Cloudflare# Cloudflare Workers# Cloudflare Pages# Cloudflare Images# StackPath# StackPath EdgeEngine# Fastly# Akamai# Vercel# Heroku# DigitalOcean# Linode# Vultr# Zapier

    Concepts and Skills

    #Leadership# Management# Agile# Kanban# Scrum# Project Management# Product Roadmaps# Lean Startup# Radical Candor# Video Streaming# video production# HLS# load balancing# DNS# scaling# serverless# containers# high performance# data modeling# REST API# CDNs# caching# edge scripting# ELT/ETL# data pipelines# SEO

    Software and Services

    #Wowza# ffmpeg# OBS# vMix# Wirecast# Adobe Premier# Playwright# Puppeteer# Visual Studio# VS Code# PHPStorm# Excel# JIRA# Confluence# OpsGenie# Trello# Whimsical# InVision# Zeplin# Storybook# DataDog# PagerDuty# Slack# Salesforce# Lucid Charts# Pixelmator# Photoshop# Stripe# Twilio