Gaurang Bham

About Gaurang Bham

I’m an iOS engineer with 6+ years of experience building and scaling mobile applications, with a focus on video streaming and playback systems used by tens of millions of users.Currently, I work at Comcast on the PlayerPlatform team, developing the core video engine that powers applications like Xfinity Stream, Peacock, and Sky. My work focuses on AVFoundation-based playback, FairPlay DRM, and HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), along with improving performance, reliability, and modernizing legacy systems into Swift-based frameworks.Earlier in my career, I worked across full-stack, iOS and DevOps roles at Johnson & Johnson, and have since built out both platform-level systems and user-facing features in production iOS applications.In addition to my professional experience, I founded and led development of Phoodie, a hyper-localized food delivery platform designed to help independent restaurants compete with larger marketplaces. I owned development across iOS, backend services (GraphQL, AWS), and product execution from concept to launch.I enjoy working on problems at the intersection of performance, scalability, and user experience — especially within video, media and commerce.Currently open to fully remote iOS opportunities (platform or product).

Experience

1. Ios Platform Engineer, Player Platform

   Comcast

   Feb 2023 — Present · Philadelphia, PA, US

   Delivered 8–10 framework features quarterly, improving stability and performance of the video playback engine powering Xfinity Stream, Sky, and other large-scale streaming applications serving tens of millions of users.• Reduced player crash rate by ~30% and memory footprint by ~15% through targeted refactoring of legacy Objective-C components into modern Swift, improving overall playback reliability.• Led development of next-generation player framework (successor to legacy system), implementing core features including native offline downloads and playback modules built on AVFoundation/AVPlayer.• Improved playback startup performance by ~40% and reduced framework/package size by ~35% through architectural optimizations and removal of legacy dependencies.• Migrated CI/CD pipelines from Jenkins to GitHub Enterprise Cloud, designing and authoring YAML-based workflows with SwiftLint and GitHub Actions to improve build reliability, maintainability, and developer velocity.• Act as primary SME for internal Config repository, driving cross-organization changes to pipelines and build tooling used by core player teams.• Collaborate closely with Android and backend teams to ensure consistent playback behavior across platforms, including HLS streaming, DRM integration, and playback resiliency.• Contribute to architectural design discussions and documentation for PlayerPlatform, helping guide the transition from legacy systems to a modern, scalable Swift-based framework.• Mentor junior engineers and support onboarding efforts, helping ramp developers on complex playback systems and internal tooling.

Education

• Drexel University

  Bachelor's Degree, Software Engineering

  2015 — 2020

• Central High School

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

  2011 — 2015