AppleTV+ Major League Soccer
2024Architected highly redundant streaming and distribution of AppleTV+'s Major League Soccer to multiple vMVPDs, alongside NEP and Harmonic.
Live SportsAppleTV+ZixivMVPD
Solutions Architect
I build the systems that move premium video.
Seeking opportunities that fall somewhere between “bleeding-edge” and “next-to-impossible.”
Solutions Architect for large-scale media & entertainment: OTT and D2C streaming, video transport, DRM, and the cloud infrastructure that ships it. 30+ years turning hard technical problems into running systems.
AppleTV+Paramount+KalturaAkamaiCiscoDisneyTMZMotorTrend
30+
Years in technology
$40M+
Revenue driven in the last 10 years
OTT · DRM
Streaming & content security
Selected achievements
Impact at the scale of the screens you watch
A few things I've architected and shipped for AppleTV+, Paramount, Motor Trend, TMZ, and the MPA.
Architected highly redundant AppleTV+ Major League Soccer (MLS) streaming and distribution to multiple vMVPDs.
Re-designed FAST channel distribution and optimized delivery to vMVPDs, saving over $500,000 annually.
Architected video content management and delivery for Motor Trend On Demand on the Kaltura platform, feeding iOS, Android, TV and Web apps.
Built a breaking-news “fast lane” for upload, transcode and delivery at TMZ, keeping them first to monetize emerging content.
Launched Ovation TV Everywhere apps end to end, while launching the Journy channel in parallel.
Architected the MPA Awards Screeners platform: encrypted, forensically watermarked delivery blending requirements from the six major studios for the Academy and SAG-AFTRA voters.
Selected work
From streaming platforms to ad-tech pipelines
A slice of the media, OTT, and cloud projects I've architected and shipped.
Paramount+ UEFA Football
2022Architected and launched UEFA, AFC, CONCACAF and EPL football for Paramount+, with AWS MediaConnect stream monitoring in Zixi ZEN Master.
Live SportsParamount+ZixiAWS
Gray Media Broadcast Contribution
2026Reliable live video contribution and transport for Gray Media's local television stations with Techex, getting field and studio feeds to air dependably.
BroadcastLive ContributionTechex
TMZ Breaking-News Fast Lane
2014Built a breaking-news “fast lane” for upload, transcode and delivery at TMZ, keeping them first to publish and monetize emerging content.
OVPKalturaNewsVideo
Open source
Code I've shipped in the open
Broadcast security, ad insertion, and the tooling around live video, in Rust, Python, and more.
sesame-sdk
RustPortable SDK and conformance vectors for SESAME, the proposed SCTE 130-9 security layer for the ESAM interface. HMAC auth, channel-scoped authorization, and AES-256-GCM payload encryption carried over HTTP headers.
RustSCTE 130-9CryptographyBroadcast
hls-scte35
PythonAn HLS-to-MPEG-TS pipeline that injects SCTE-35 ad markers with TSDuck: the plumbing behind clean, monetizable ad breaks in streaming workflows.
PythonSCTE-35Ad InsertionTSDuck
rust-pois
RustA Placement Opportunity Information Service (POIS) server written in Rust: the decisioning endpoint that tells an ad system what to splice and when.
RustPOISAd-TechServer
Testimonials
What colleagues say
Dan Scheinman
Former General Counsel, Cisco Systems · Investor & Advisor
“Bo is very strong with the customer on the intersection of technology and business.”
John V. Healy
Cisco Media Solutions Group
“Few people possess this unique blend of traits, and even fewer utilize them as effectively as Bo.”
Woody Lewis
Solutions Architect, Cisco Media Solutions Group
“He is quick to grasp new frameworks and technologies, no matter how complex, and a natural leader in deploying them.”
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