Bo Bayles

Contact: bo@bbayles.com

Wurl (Applovin)

Positions:

• Principal Architect (2025 - present)

• Solutions Architect (2021 - 2024)

Summary: Wurl provides various services for streaming TV platforms and content publishers. I am the primary developer for several software projects and products; act as tech lead and mentor for interns and junior engineers; and provide ops and QA support.

• Designed and implemented a VOD-to-linear playout pipeline with several advanced features, including DPI and dynamic overlays. Technologies: Python, AWS Lambda, MediaLive, MediaPackage, GraphQL, HLS and DASH.

• Designed and implemented a service for inserting live events into video streams with support for HLS, DASH, RTMP, and Zixi inputs. Technologies: Python, AWS Lambda, API Gateway, MediaLive, MediaConnect.

• Designed and implemented a video stream proxy for dynamically selecting origins based on time zone, origin status, language, location, and more. Technologies: Python, HLS, CMAF, DASH.

• Wrote a full-featured automation package to speed up and reduce errors associated with channel launches. Technologies: Python, AWS Lambda, S3, and MediaTailor, SpringServe, Serverless Framework.

Cisco Systems

Positions:

• Technical Leader I (2017 - 2019)

• Technical Leader II (2019 - 2021)

Summary: After Cisco acquired Observable Networks, I became the lead engineer for a team of 10 software developers and advanced support engineers working on all aspects of Stealthwatch Cloud, Security Analytics and Logging, and related services.

• Designed and implemented large-scale data processing pipelines (primarily in AWS) for network security monitoring applications (primarily written in Python)

• Developed integrations with AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, and various Cisco products

• Worked with product management and sales teams to scope business requirements and develop product roadmaps

• Acted as engineering liaison to customer support, writing up enhancement requests and prioritizing user-reported bugs

• Mentored  junior engineers and interns and managed outside contractors

Sample project: Cloud-scale event ingestion pipeline.

• Worked with product management from the project’s inception to understand business requirements and customer use cases, develop a scope of work and schedule, and create proof-of-concept solutions.

• Designed and implemented a data pipeline that supports: live streaming of incoming events, flexible querying of previously collected data, and multiple front ends (command line, API, web browser)

• Technical highlights: 100% serverless. Uses AWS Kinesis, Firehose, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, CloudWatch Metrics, SQS, and S3.

• Operational highlights: Inexpensive to operate (no permanently-running servers), scales up and down automatically with system load (using standard AWS primitives) 

Observable Networks

Positions:

• Software Engineer (2014 - 2017)

• Director of Technical Operations (2014 - 2017)

Summary: As engineer #6 at the St. Louis network security monitoring startup, I had the opportunity to contribute both widely and deeply to the organization.

• Web application development, primarily using Python and Django

• Network security research and vulnerability detection, primarily using Python

• Developing for multiple code bases using source code management (primarily git), issue tracking and code review, continuous integration (primarily Jenkins and Drone), and unit testing

• Using a wide range of AWS services, particularly: EC2, Elasticache, Kinesis, Redshift, RDS, S3

• Partnering with the sales team to onboard new customers, gather information to demonstrate value to assist with closing deals, giving demonstrations and talks at conferences and events

• Responding to customer feedback, ensuring that customer issues are priorities for engineering

• Designing and implementing a number of key product features, e.g., support for IPFIX telemetry in an on-premises data collector

Suddenlink Communications

Positions:

• Advanced Services Engineer: 2009 - 2011

• Manager, Advanced Services: 2011 - 2014

• Senior Manager, Product Technology: 2014

Summary: Served in and led a small team of engineers focused on video service delivery (particularly VOD and IPTV) and product technology (particularly network services and security).

• Personally responsible for operating and expanding VOD platforms that generated millions of dollars in revenue annually.

• Developed and implemented plans for several multi-million dollar equipment upgrade and service expansion projects.

• Created a number of process and reporting automation tools, particularly using Python and SQL.

• Tested, operated, and deployed a variety of cable headend systems: encoders, decoders, multiplexers, modulators, set-top box management platforms, and more.  

Education and training

Degrees:

• B.S. Computer Engineering (Missouri University of Science & Technology)

• B.S. Electrical Engineering (Missouri University of Science & Technology)

Internships, co-ops, training programs:

• Electrical Engineering co-op at Barry-Wehmiller Design Group (2006)

• Electrical Engineering intern at Yaskawa Electric (2007)

• Network Engineering development program at Sprint (2008-2009)

Executive/management training:

• SCTE-Georgia Tech Management Development Program: 2013

Open source

I maintain several open source packages, including the Python libraries more-itertools and redis-collections. See my GitHub page for a list of current projects.

In the past I've contributed to the Mozilla Project (particularly support.mozilla.org) and Python.