Bo Bayles

Contact: bo@bbayles.com

Wurl (Applovin)

Positions:

• Principal Architect (2025 - present)

• Solutions Architect (2021 - 2024)

Summary:  Key software and systems engineer for video distribution. Software development, cloud systems engineering, process automation. Tech lead and mentor for interns and junior engineers; ops and QA support

• Designed and implemented a video stream server that dynamically serves content based on time zone, origin status, language, location, and more. Routinely handles more than 100k requests per second. Technologies: Python, HLS, CMAF, DASH.

• Designed and implemented a VOD-to-linear playout pipeline with several advanced features, including DPI, live events, and dynamic overlays. Used by hundreds of linear TV channel brands. Technologies: Python, AWS Lambda, AWS Elemental services, GraphQL, HLS and DASH.

• Wrote a full-featured automation package to speed up and reduce errors associated with channel launches. Used for thousands of linear TV channel distributions to streaming platforms. Technologies: Python, AWS Lambda, S3, and MediaTailor, SpringServe, Serverless Framework.

Cisco Systems

Positions:

• Technical Leader I (2017 - 2019)

• Technical Leader II (2019 - 2021)

Summary:  Lead engineer for a group of 10 developers, contractors, and support techs. Software development, cloud systems engineering, security research.

• Designed and implemented (primarily in Python) large-scale data processing pipelines for network security monitoring applications. These included integrations with AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, and various Cisco products.

• Served as permanent member of the Engineering "Security Council," balancing roadmap priorities and assigning tasks to personnel. Mentored junior employees and interns, managed internal engineers and 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 frontends. Technologies: Python, 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 (acquired by Cisco)

Positions:

• Software Engineer (2014 - 2017)

• Director of Technical Operations (2014 - 2017)

Summary:  Engineer #6 at this network security startup. Software development, cloud systems engineering, security research, customer operations.

• Wrote dozens of network security research and vulnerability detection models, a key component of Observable's product offering. Technologies: Python, Django, AWS EC2, Redshift, RDS, Kinesis, and S3.

• Handled almost all inbound customer support, onboarded new customers, assisted sales in product demonstrations, gave technical talks at conferences and events across the U.S.

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 (VOD and IPTV) and product technology (network services and security).

• Developed and implemented plans for several multi-million dollar equipment upgrade and service expansion projects. Directed expansions that tripled the number of cable systems able to serve VOD.

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

• Tested, operated, and deployed a variety of cable headend system components: encoders, decoders, multiplexers, modulators, set-top box management platforms, and more. Became company subject matter expert for VOD.

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.