Galan Bridgman

Galan makes sure the team stays miles ahead of technology advances.

Galan’s strong engineering discipline has enabled Cloud Media Works to continually transform their platform and focus on the big picture in the overall direction of the technology. His vast knowledge ensures that CMW stays on top of the newest and greatest tools, so the company continues to be unique in what it offers and be able to scale for its customers.

From the beginning, Galan helped to create a self-service and white-labeled B2C curated video content OTT service for Cloud Media Works, including several innovations in user interactivity, including 360 video, QR code and SMS "Take It With You™" video sharing, and video fingerprint-driven bookmarking and content discovery.

Galan has been a pioneer in the digital media industry, beginning with the co-development of the prototype and the first 3 versions of QuickTime for Windows for Apple Computer.

He has worked at large corporations, including Microsoft as MVP of Digital Media for 5 years. He also works at many startups to transform their technology platforms. Revolutionizing the sports industry entertainment experience, at Thuuz Sports Galan helped lead the development of a specialized video ingest pipeline that performs Machine Learning analysis in real time and delivers automated highlight reels with a patent-pending playback technology. At xTV Networks, he held multiple roles in the corporate video / digital signage space. In one of these roles, he architected and implemented a full video ingest, transcoding and delivery platform using C#/.NET Azure Web Roles, Service Bus Queues and Azure Media Encoders. In another role, he implemented REST APIs, media management and video playback systems using Node.js, HTML 5 & CSS 3, Bootstrap 3, Strongloop, and JWPlayer that plays content in Adaptive MP4, HLS, and MPEG-DASH formats.