Alex Schworer

Work History

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  Product Manager, Media Infrastructure

  Netflix

  May 2021 - Present

  San Francisco Bay Area

  Helping developers working on Netflix productions access scaled infrastructure and build workflows across Live Action, VFX, and Animation.
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  Product Manager, Live Action Production Media

  Netflix

  January 2019 - May 2021

  San Francisco Bay Area

  Deliver tools to enable end to end footage management (from on set acquisition to conform and archive) to Netflix production teams.
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  Product Manager, Studio Media Delivery

  Netflix

  September 2015 - January 2019

  Support design, engineering and ops teams in our quest to help production teams spend less time on media logistics.
  
  Developed the initial strategy and launched Content Hub in 2016. Content Hub is used by a global roster of crew, post production, editorial, sound and VFX vendors to ingest, transform and share petabytes of media assets on their shows.
  
  From 2016 to 2019, I helped scale the operations and support of archival and asset management through a period of hypergrowth as the content slate more than tripled.
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  Software Engineer

  Brightcove

  February 2014 - September 2015

  San Francisco Bay Area

  Shipped new features to unlock value for broadcasters and OTTs, like advanced colorspace support, audio mixing capabilities and integration with Google Cloud Storage (GCS).
  
  Built and operated a media caching system using Redis and Ruby that dramatically cut down on encode time for feature-length content.
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  Zencoder Integration Engineer (Sales Engineer)

  Brightcove

  April 2013 - February 2014

  Craft technical proposals and provide integration support to help the sales team win complex deals with streaming platforms and big internet companies.
  
  Author of zencoder-py (https://github.com/zencoder/zencoder-py), the Python integration library for Zencoder.
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  Lead Developer

  Atomic Fiction

  January 2011 - March 2013

  San Francisco Bay Area

  Did a little bit of everything technology-wise as we grew the company from 0 to
  ~50 artists and multiple projects: desktop support, license server management, software and hardware deployment, networking, Shotgun tools and artist pipeline tools.
  
  Notable Projects:
  Boardwalk Empire (2011)
  Flight (2012)
  Looper (2012)
  Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
  
  Author of the Python, Maya and Nuke submission tools for Zync, an early startup doing
  cloud-based rendering, later acquired by Google.

  

  

  

  
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  Lighting TD

  The Walt Disney Company

  May 2009 - December 2010

  Projects:
  A Christmas Carol (2009)
  Mars Needs Moms (2011)
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  Pipeline TD

  Laika

  January 2008 - May 2009

  Portland, Oregon Area