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Justin Joseph

Whittier,CA
Justin Joseph

Summary

Motivated product manager with a solid engineering background, offering storied experience in cross team collaboration and delivering features that fulfill business and stakeholder requirements. Recognized for attention to detail and interpersonal abilities and driven by a passion for leadership and desire to make an impact.

Overview

15
years of professional experience

Work History

Crunchyroll

Product Manager
07.2022 - 07.2024

Job overview

  • Oversaw integration of Mux Quality of Experience tooling across 13 user facing client platforms, demoed new use cases to senior Product leadership, and served as mediator between Mux and Crunchyroll for contract negotiations and feature requests
  • Partnered with Video Engineering to facilitate implementation of 100% DRM protection of Crunchyroll video content through stream limiting, video tokens, and signed URLs
  • Presented kickoff for media availability effort to prevent quarterly outages of content that were restricting access to over 600,000 Crunchyroll subscribers and costing company average of 187 employee hours per outage
  • Owned bi-weekly syncs between Product, Program, and Video Engineering to prioritize engineering efforts, create and track sprint goals, groom and assign tickets, and pivot, as needed, when confronted with new business or customer concerns
  • Owned backlog and ticket management for Video Engineering and ensured cross team communication through regular updates of Epics, Product Requirement Documentation, and Weekly Stakeholder updates for ongoing efforts
  • Prioritized roadmap in order to achieve product goals and metrics.

Crunchyroll

Software Engineer
10.2020 - 07.2022

Job overview

  • Acted as team lead on department-wide re-platforming initiative deprecated legacy metadata pipeline solutions and introduced S3 projection logic for clients, including web, leanback, and mobile, for anime streaming video content.
  • Set deadlines, managed expectations, maintained morale, and held daily meetings to monitor progress and worked with client teams to deliver agreed upon contract that would both satisfy existing requirements while improving upon prior service infrastructure.
  • Personally architected and implemented key portions of projection service logic which utilized Typescript job scheduling service to trigger AWS lambda which served proprietary metadata to clients through S3 and Cloudfront accessed through API.
  • Realized following modernized improvements for users: Sub-second data access, global availability/low latency through locally available edge-cached data, higher reliability through serviceless data retrieval, and process transparency through internal alerts.
  • Compiled and maintained comprehensive Confluence wiki and Runbook to assist in onboarding and operation of Content Services support that included step by step instructions for new engineers and technicians, Postman Collection, and seminar.

Andalusian

Software Engineer
01.2020 - 08.2020

Job overview

  • Devised React.js web-app with UI designed to amplify transposability of components and ensure both preservation and one-way directional flow of state to enhance ease of onboarding and communication for other developers on team.
  • Tasked Bcrypt with safeguarding of sensitive authentication keys against threat of hacking and rainbow tables through use of its block cipher cryptomathic algorithm and salting which lend users heightened defenses against dictionary and brute force attacks.
  • Enlisted Azure Core Tools to craft, edit, and deploy over 12 microservices to event-driven, serverless platform as they facilitate local building and debugging and provide for scaling of operations in cloud environment to reflect fluctuations in user interaction.
  • Monitored and invoked serverless functions on Google Cloud Platform as its utilization of open source kernel virtual machine hypervisor provides increased security by removing unused components and permitting robust vulnerability response.

Freelance

Audio Engineer
01.2010 - 01.2018

Job overview

  • Edited and recorded 100s of audio files for use in audio books, web and radio advertisements, and legal depositions by using open-source Audacity software with its broad range of compatibilities and feature-rich editing environment.
  • Maintained and configured potent array of audio recording hardware in private studio space that afforded ideal environment to produce abundance of digital audio files for clients including Delta Airlines, J.Crew, and IRONMAN Triathlon

Education

Washington University in St. Louis
St Louis, MO

Bachelor of Arts from Psychology-Neuroscience-Philosophy
05.2009

Skills

  • Product Lifecycle Management
  • End to End Feature Delivery
  • A/B Testing
  • Jira, Atlassian, Rally
  • Interpersonal Communication
  • Agile Software Development
  • Project Planning
  • Scrum Framework

Talks

Kubernetes and Docker Swarms - Fad or Future? Ethiq Speaker Series, 2019

Interests

  • Trying new flavors of ice cream
  • Introducing my friends to obscure movies
  • Befriending other people’s pets

Timeline

Product Manager

Crunchyroll
07.2022 - 07.2024

Software Engineer

Crunchyroll
10.2020 - 07.2022

Software Engineer

Andalusian
01.2020 - 08.2020

Audio Engineer

Freelance
01.2010 - 01.2018

Washington University in St. Louis

Bachelor of Arts from Psychology-Neuroscience-Philosophy
Justin Joseph