Meet the team

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

Yaadata Abdalhalim

Yaadata has worked on large payment systems and has a history of tackling challenging problems outside of his domain. When he isn’t glued to his laptop, you can find him with his family, reading a book or enjoying long walks/hikes outdoors.

Joshua Alphonse

A Long Island native of Caribbean heritage, and a software engineer with a passion for record collecting and creative coding.

Rahim Alwer

Spent the last four years working on open-source web video players, design systems, and framework integrations. Spend most of my time outside of work with family, watching movies, eating pizza, and gaming. I've been known as the video guy at some places because I read the

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

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.

Victor Boutté

AI enthusiast focused on video intelligence, creative automation, and tools for developers and storytellers.

Constantin Britcov

Passionate about teacup Yorkies, long-distance running, Benfica football club and fatherhood. A seasoned immigrant, he strives to leave everything better than he found it.

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

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

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

Alex de Chaves

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

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

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 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.

Ben Chuba

Tech enthusiast always chasing after the next new thing. Obsessed with solving your technical challenges. Proud owner of far too many board games.

Phil Cluff

Phil has spent the last 15 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

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

Jeremy Condon

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

Vivian Creasy

Developer & consumer marketer and start-up cofounder. Passionate foodie and travel enthusiast who has globetrotted to all 7 continents.

Andrew Crowe

Between mucking stalls and mending fences, Andrew builds large scale video ingest and delivery systems with a focus on efficiency and reliability. Likes: multicast, breaking things, ATI All-in-Wonder 9800 Pro. Dislikes: audio drift, HTTP/2, mayonnaise.

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

Alex Diehl

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

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

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

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.

Stacy Fernández

Journalist turned marketer who believes in storytelling, connection, and substance over fluff. My perfect day includes a park, several hours at a thrift store, and a sweet treat (ideally involving chocolate).

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 generalist 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.

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.

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

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.

Aaron Hedges

Aaron lives in Michigan with a house full of people and animals. When not playing the role of father/jester, he plays obscure tabletop games, watches bad movies and loses regularly in online games.

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

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

Dylan Jhaveri

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

Callan Kilroy

Previously part of the sales team at Oracle Cloud. Spends his free time skiing, completing long runs, or dancing at weddings.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Rob Mach

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

Jordan Mann

Web aficionado with a history of building for developers. Constantly tinkering on software, design, and art projects. Enjoys finding hidden shortcuts online and offline.

Jacqui Manzi

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

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

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

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

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

Jaime Ortiz

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

Marion Pavillet

French who fell in love with the Bay area. Avid problem solver, can be found hiking or at the climbing gym.

Bobby Peck

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

Joe Picard

Proud Philadelphian focused on creating strong relationships and the pursuit of happiness. I love to eat, travel, and share stories about eating and traveling.

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.

Sam Potts

Sam is a senior design engineer focused on building performant, accessible user interfaces, and is the creator of Plyr, the widely used open-source media player now part of Mux. Outside of work, Sam is a father to two boys and enjoys spending time with family while working on hands-on projects at home.

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

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

Justin Sanford

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

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

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

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.

Jordan Yee

Sacramento native - formerly of Shutterfly. Currently riding bikes everywhere, playing mahjong, and finding fun beverages or snacks whenever possible.