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The Mux team has created some of the most respected products and communities in video today.

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Rob Aspinall
Senior Media & Entertainment Enterprise Account Executive

Rob Aspinall

Previously worked on encoding, monetisation, and CRM for OTT platforms. Now focused on expanding the Mux fan base in Europe. On weekends can be found running slowly around Leicester.

Becca Axvig
Director of People

Becca Axvig

Reads Dickens for fun, gardens when Minnesota allows. Enjoys organizing drawers and closets a little too much. May give painful high fives.

Rachel Belkin
VP of Revenue

Rachel Belkin

Former Army Officer turned sales leader and proud Texan! Can always be found at home with her kids or out diligently searching for the perfect queso recipe.

Daksh Bhatia
Senior Product Analytics Manager

Daksh Bhatia

Longtime Lakers and Rick & Morty fan, who enjoys contrarian views on tech and policy. Huge foodie so don't be shy about reaching out with spicy fried chicken sandwich recs.

Adam Brown
Co-Founder, CTO

Adam Brown

Built VR rendering, encoding infra, and low-latency live streaming. Enjoyed the latter two so much he did it again. Hasn't not wrestled an alligator.

Sarah Brown
Senior Engineering Manager

Sarah Brown

Sarah has worked on a wide range of consumer and SaaS products, with a strong focus in the developer tools space. She is passionate about creating great user experiences and high performance systems.

Darius Cepulis
Senior Community Engineer

Darius Cepulis

Pretends he knows more about coffee than he does. Happier when he's outside. Thinks the web is pretty neat.

Philip Chang
Staff Software Engineer

Philip Chang

Previously worked on backend distributed systems at Robinhood and Uber. Likes slinging frisbees, slinging pottery, and slinging code. Loves long walks on the beach.

Alex de Chaves
Community Engineer

Alex de Chaves

Previously worked for Major League Baseball and Vimeo with a background in broadcast and web video.

Wanda Chiu
Staff Software Engineer

Wanda Chiu

Previously a backend engineer building a scalable cloud management system for IOT devices at a startup. Loves spending time with family and exploring the country.

Lamia Chlala
Director of Marketing

Lamia Chlala

Previously office manager at Zencoder and product marketer at Brightcove. She can often be found geeking out over CSS and experimenting in the kitchen.

Electra Chong
Software Engineer

Electra Chong

Software generalist who's dabbled in ecomm and storage solutions. Also a couch potato who enjoys crafty hobbies, cat memes, and learning to ice skate as an adult. Aspires to a hygge lifestyle.

Phil Cluff
Director of Product Management, Mux Video

Phil Cluff

Phil has spent the last 10 years building some of the biggest AVOD, SVOD, and public service streaming platforms in the world at the BBC and Brightcove. He’s here to chew gum and stream video, and he’s all out of gum.

Bob Cohn
Advisor

Bob Cohn

Former Chairman and CEO of Octel, EVP of Lucent Technologies, and partner with Sequoia Capital.

Jeremy Condon
Staff Software Engineer

Jeremy Condon

Still has fun solving problems and writing code. Outside of work you can usually find him enjoying the outdoors.

Stephen Crowe
Software Engineer

Stephen Crowe

Previously a full stack engineer at Grove Collaborative. Frequents concerts, Dolores Park, and video games on his couch. Proud dog uncle.

Jon Dahl
Co-founder, CEO

Jon Dahl

Co-founder and CEO at Mux. Former founder (Zencoder), ex-software developer, ex-philosophy grad student. Makes better BBQ than code these days.

Staci DeGagne
Senior Video Strategist

Staci DeGagne

When not making videos at Mux, she’s working on indie film projects, exploring the bay area with the fam, checking out live comedy and always staying versed in the Bravoverse (aka trash tv).

Alex Diehl
Senior Staff Architect

Alex Diehl

Previously the founding member of the data engineering and analytics team at Facebook’s Oculus VR.

Emily Dixon
Senior Software Engineer

Emily Dixon

A career-long mobile developer, Emily has worked in the healthcare, video, and entertainment industries. She loves being outside, and camps whenever she can get away.

Cyril Duprat
Head of EMEA Sales / UK Site Lead

Cyril Duprat

Previously built multi-CDN and multi-Cloud strategies at Cedexis. London's AWS User Group Organiser. Wannabe music festival programmer.

Eric Elia
VP of Strategic Accounts & Partnerships

Eric Elia

Founding team at Brightcove, cut teeth at Comcast and @Home. Once held the ceremonial title VP of Tacos. Will take friends of Mux on dive tours of Monterey.

Bryce Fisher-Fleig
Senior Software Engineer

Bryce Fisher-Fleig

Bryce only knows football seeds from building the monitoring stack for two Super Bowls at ViacomCBS. Previously worked on video delivery at Brightcove and Udemy. When not chasing his kids on scooters, Bryce tries to grow kale on his fire escape and read epic fantasy.

Mark Franceschini
Software Engineer

Mark Franceschini

Previously worked on IBM's Kubernetes service. Loves a good peanut butter, raisin, and chocolate chip sandwich. Hates wearing shorts.

Walker Frankenberg
Software Engineer - Data Platform

Walker Frankenberg

Software engineer generalist who who loves to solve puzzles and find solutions to difficult problems, so figured he’d turn it into a career. When not coding, can usually be found with friends or outdoors, and often both.

Todd Gladfelter
Senior Technical Customer Success Manager

Todd Gladfelter

Technical best friend to customers. Cruises blue groomers in winter. Helps lost people in airports. Startles easily.

Justin Greer
Staff Software Engineer

Justin Greer

Specializes in generalizing in video encoding, which he previously did at Zencoder and Brightcove. Enjoys woodworking because boards never complain about missing semicolons.

Walker Griggs
Senior Software Engineer

Walker Griggs

Formerly rebooting your databases at Heroku. Usually found riding bikes or playing chess.

Ryan Grothouse
VP, Engineering

Ryan Grothouse

Previously Director of Content Engineering @USAToday. Passionate about building Distributed Systems, APIs and high-performing teams by getting people, process and technology working well together. Loves pizza.

Celina Grzesz
Business Development Representative

Celina Grzesz

A Biomed grad turned sales professional with a complicated relationship with running. In her downtime, Celina is lost in the captivating world of K-dramas, analysing plots like a true scientist.

Lauren Guite
Revenue Operations Manager

Lauren Guite

Former first grade teacher turned sales operations professional. Previously led sales ops at Landed, helping educators purchase homes in the communities they serve. When not working, you can find her trying out a new recipe or reading a book.

Daniel Hayes
Senior Software Engineer

Daniel Hayes

Previously built products at Meetup. You might be able to spot him riding his bike around Brooklyn or chasing squirrels with his dog.

Steve Heffernan
Co-founder and Product Architect

Steve Heffernan

Creator of Video.js and co-founder of Zencoder. Semi-professional drummer and apparently drove a Civic lowered more than Mux's live latency in high school.

Valentin Hernandez
Senior Manager, Revenue Operations and Strategy

Valentin Hernandez

Built a background in pricing strategy at Simon-Kucher and Dropbox before joining Mux. Trying to eat more vegetables and spend more time outdoors.

Ryan Hood
Director of Finance & Controller

Ryan Hood

Previously worked as an outsourced controller/consultant for a wide variety of startups. Loves his Wisconsin sports teams.

James Isbell
Head of Business Operations & Analytics

James Isbell

Ex-strategy consultant that fell in love with Big Data at Google and YouTube. Montana raised country mouse faking it in the city, usually trying to find his way outside. #GirlDad; don't tell my son

Adam Jaggard
Senior Community Engineer

Adam Jaggard

A history of combining code and multi media including generative art, programmatic animation and building interactive experiences. Can usually be found climbing boulders when the weather is dry or playing chess when it isn't. Ramen enthusiast.

Dylan Jhaveri
Director of Self Service

Dylan Jhaveri

Software Engineer and cold water surfer. Previously startup co-founder. Trying to find the best cheeseburger in San Francisco.

Justin Joseph
Technical Customer Success Manager

Justin Joseph

If he's not fiercely advocating technical customer needs, Justin can likely be found eating pizza and bragging about his son. He also finds time to be a student of cinema and a friend to most animals.

Dave Kiss
Senior Community Engineering Lead

Dave Kiss

Was: solo-developreneur. Now: developer community person. Happy to ride a bike, hike a hike, high-five a hand, and listen to spa music.

Salman Kothari
COO

Salman Kothari

Former spreadsheet guy at Bain Capital turned start-up Ops leader. Passport stamp collector and fish catcher when new Dad life allows it.

Nidhi Kulkarni
Staff Software Engineer

Nidhi Kulkarni

A generalist with a speciality in mobile development. Passionate about building extraordinary products. Outside of the office, can be usually be found rowing or lifting weights.

Ashok Lalwani
Strategic Business Development

Ashok Lalwani

Big time foodie though vegetarian and amateur coffee lover. Lived and breathed video streaming at Fastly, Ellation/Crunchyroll and Akamai in my past life.

Marc Leonard
Software Engineer

Marc Leonard

With 15 years of experience in media and entertainment, Marc started his career in post-production for film and television and has spent the last 8 years developing cloud video platforms. Off the clock, you can find him navigating Montana rapids on his raft “Big Blue” or teaching his kids to ski.

Brian Lieberman
Senior Software Engineer

Brian Lieberman

Has a passion for reliable systems at scale, spicy food, and plants. Previously USAToday and New Relic. Will travel the world for good tacos.

Ron Lipke
Senior Engineering Manager

Ron Lipke

Nuclear reactor and hydrogen plant operator turned keyboard clacker. Passionate about reliability as a product feature. Also passionate about Dungeons & Dragons and bird watching.

Jamie Lonsdale
Senior Technical Customer Success Manager

Jamie Lonsdale

Jamie has been a part of Customer Success teams in both start-up and global tech companies. He has also banged his head on most of the door frames in London.

Wesley Luyten
Senior Open Source Engineer

Wesley Luyten

Coder, mnmalist, perf junkie and big into UI and video tech. Austinite originally from Belgium who loves exploring and biking. Jumping sheep hills once in a while at 9th Street BMX Park.

Steven Lyons
VP, Product

Steven Lyons

Steve comes from data-driven optimization and analytics at Cedexis and Yahoo!. A tea drinker in the land of coffee.

Rob Mach
Creative Director

Rob Mach

Pixel-pusher and part-time ski bum. Loves to travel, hike, and critique font choices.

Jacqui Manzi
Senior Engineering Manager & Application Security Lead

Jacqui Manzi

Passionate about building web applications. Previously a Team Lead and front end developer at Zignal Labs.

Matthew McClure
Co-Founder and VP of Developer Experience

Matthew McClure

Creator of Demuxed and wrangler of meetup speakers. Used to write a lot of React and Elixir code. Still do sometimes, but used to, too.

Edwin Mejia
Solutions Architect

Edwin Mejia

Migrated to Southern California coming from NYC, hooked on food & travel. Composer, beatboxer, passion for signals & systems. Would love to write some fiction or develop a game someday.

Levi Miller
Senior Solutions Engineer

Levi Miller

Customer-facing professional with a knack for solving video and QOS problems in the broadcast and OTT space. Spends his downtime watching his favourite football team lose (Tottenham Hotspur) and playing boardgames.

Venus Najeeb
Senior HR & Operations Manager

Venus Najeeb

Venus is passionate about efficiency and automation in ops, she also loves tools.

Jaime Ortiz
VP of Business Operations and Finance

Jaime Ortiz

Recovering investment banker turned BizOps leader at NerdWallet and Care.com. TV enthusiast and former social media manager to a dog influencer.

Sally Park
Business Development Representative

Sally Park

A tech junkie with various, various hobbies. Always ask her what book she’s reading or movie she's just watched! Currently and happily based in New York City.

Marion Pavillet
Staff Software Engineer

Marion Pavillet

French who fell in love with San Francisco and moved there. Avid problem solver who did not study computer science (but loves it). Recovering Nutella addict.

Bobby Peck
Staff Software Engineer

Bobby Peck

Previously worked on VOD & Ad products at Brightcove. When not working usually out cell phone reception on a hiking trail.

Christian Pillsbury
Staff Software Engineer & Tech Lead

Christian Pillsbury

Started working on OTT streaming media & players over a decade ago for a bunch of folks back in the Adobe Flash/RTMP days as a consultant at Digital Primates. When I’m not working on video players, I’m spending my time doing deep dives in philosophy, stomping around the Chicago arts scene, and watching TV on the internet with my cat Grits.

Jacob Randall
Staff Software Engineer

Jacob Randall

Jacob was a Systems Engineer on the Zencoder platform. Ate more than 50 Ike's Stephen Curry 3030 sandwiches to help the Warriors reclaim the NBA title.

Karen Reyes
Senior Business Operations and Strategy Manager

Karen Reyes

Previously worked in strategy & operations at Twitter and investment banking at Barclays. Avid traveler, skincare enthusiast, and aspiring runner.

Greg Reynolds
Senior EMEA Account Executive / BDR Lead

Greg Reynolds

Previously part of the sales team at Twitter (MoPub), Ooyala and JW Player. If allowed, will rant fanatically about the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Drew Rodman
Staff Software Engineer

Drew Rodman

Former lead at Pandora and Sonder with a passion for working on gnarly problems. Easily distracted by frisbees and peanut butter.

Justin Sanford
VP of Customer Experience and Solutions

Justin Sanford

Previously Solution Architect at Brightcove and Program Manager at Microsoft. Doesn't trust people named Matt.

Mike Smith
Senior Staff Software Engineer

Mike Smith

Mike's been writing video software on and off for 15 years, and somehow still enjoys it. Australian, but living in the US for over a decade.

Faith Szeto
Senior Software Engineer

Faith Szeto

Previously built integrations at Workday. Passionate foodie, gym rat, and aspiring photographer. Does finger guns when she gets nervous.

Kyle Weaver
Staff Software Engineer

Kyle Weaver

Previously SRE at Gannett. Passionate about designing & building reliability into systems and getting sleep while on-call. Can be found on a boat or on the slopes.

Josh Wien
Sr. Software Engineer

Josh Wien

Previously built logistics systems at DoorDash. Loves solving problems with code. Enjoys board games and video games, and sometimes makes his own. When not at his keyboard, you can find him hiking in search of a good hammock spot.

Midnight Wilkinson
Senior Office Manager

Midnight Wilkinson

Haight-Ashbury child of Flower Children, Business Admin professional in industries from construction to software, startup vet, and survivor of parenting twins through their teen years. I love helping humans enjoy their workplaces and helping companies show their humanity. Apparently, 2 completely unassociated people referred to me as a “Swiss Army knife” when my references were checked so that’s something… Don’t be surprised if my hair changes color every 6-12 months.

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About Mux

Mux was founded in 2015 by Jon Dahl, Steve Heffernan, Matt McClure, and Adam Brown, four engineers and veterans of online video who are passionate about video technology and performance. The team now includes engineers from YouTube, Twitch, Brightcove, and Facebook.

At Zencoder, they helped move video encoding to the cloud, replacing stacks of encoding servers with a clean, powerful API for groups like Amazon, PBS, and the NFL. Zencoder was co-founded in 2010 by Jon, Steve, and a third founder, and was acquired two years later by Brightcove.

While at Zencoder, they also helped pioneer the move from Flash to HTML5 video by creating Video.js, which is now the most widely deployed open-source video player on the web. Today, Video.js is used by Instagram, Twitter, Microsoft, and hundreds of thousands of other websites.

The team behind Mux is also responsible for Demuxed, the premiere conference for engineers working on video. They blog, podcast, and have spoken about video and data technology around the world.

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Why “Mux”?

The word mux is short for “multiplexing”, the process of bringing together multiple signals into a single communication channel. In the world of digital video, muxing is the last step in the creation of video for streaming. Multiple signals - audio, video, and data - are muxed together to create a playable video stream.

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