Brandon Colton
Lead Software Engineer at Disney Streaming
- Role
- Lead Software Engineer at Disney Streaming
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Brandon Colton
A self-motivating, team-oriented software engineering enthusiast with over 10 years of experience. I have a strong passion for supporting innovative products and services through software engineering and business driven development. I enjoy leading and inspiring others to grow and develop, in order to optimize satisfaction and results. My experience includes working primarily with Java, distributed systems, recommendation systems, AWS and other cloud platforms, NoSQL and SQL databases, as well as Angular and Javascript.
Experience
Lead Software Engineer
Sep 2023 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Lead the Personalization Data & Infrastructure team, owning execution and delivery of next-generation personalization data products and systems for over 130 million Disney+ subscribers at global scale• Ingest, store and serve recommendations and user data, Disney+ and Hulu content catalog metadata for quick access by downstream clients through the development of highly available, low latency backend APIs and services• Design, build, and own performant and cost optimized data stores built for success at user profile scale• Own delivery of data products powering ML training and inference, including watch history sequences, user features, embeddings, affinity signals, and enriched content metadata• Build tier one critical path distributed systems using technologies such as Java, Kubernetes, Kinesis, ScyllaDB, AWS, DynamoDB• Drive operational excellence best practices around observability, monitoring, cost efficiency, and production support• Ensure code, build, and operational quality through unit tests, integration tests and configuration of CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies
Education
University of Arizona
Bachelor’s Degree, Information Science and Arts
2011 — 2015
Skills
- Software Development
- Java
- Sql
- Python
- Angularjs
- Javascript
- Html
- Css
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office
- Teamwork
- Leadership
- Customer Service
- Data Analysis
- Linux
- Powerpoint
- Eclipse
- Databases
- Social Media
- Data Management
- Information Science
- Information Technology
- Windows
- Mac Os X
- Microsoft Word
- Documentation
- R
- Intellij Idea
- Team Foundation Server (Tfs)
- Communication
- Git
- Public Speaking
- Svn
- Onenote
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