# Joshua Mohundro

> Lead Software Engineer, Media Player Engineering at The Walt Disney Company, based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Joshua works on the web and connected-TV video player behind Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN.

- Portfolio: https://jmohundro.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmmohund/
- Last updated: 2026-11-13

## Current role: Disney media player (May 2021 – present)

- Lead Software Engineer, Media Player Engineering (Aug 2024 – present)
- Sr Software Engineer, Media Player Engineering (Jun 2023 – Aug 2024)
- Sr Software Engineer, Video Platform Engineering, Disney Streaming (May 2021 – Jun 2023)

The player runs in desktop browsers and on connected TVs (Samsung Tizen, LG webOS, and others). Joshua's team has rebuilt it from the ground up more than once, adding live playback, inserted ads, and live inserted ads, and bringing Disney+, Hulu, ESPN, ABC, and FX onto a single player. It powers 80+ branded sites and apps.

Work Joshua has led:
- An incident-free launch of the new player that enabled ads on Disney+.
- Player support for dynamic slugs, delivered ahead of schedule; the effort won a DEG EnTech Award.
- Dynamically inserted in-stream promos, which reduced video playback failures by 0.2% across the board.
- Audio and subtitle language selection, with fallbacks when a preferred language isn't available.
- Playback work for the Super Bowl streaming on Disney+ and the ESPN app in February 2027.

## Earlier career

- Lenovo, Senior Software Engineer (2019–2021): technical lead on a cloud-native AWS contract management system responsible for $230M+ in yearly revenue; CI/CD with Jenkins, Terraform, Docker, and ECS; grew the team from 3 to 12 engineers; led the move from waterfall to agile.
- GE Digital, Staff Software Engineer (2018–2019): rebuilt the internal single sign-on system on AWS with risk-based access; co-owned the AWS environment.
- Capital One, Software Engineer → Senior Full Stack Engineer (2016–2018): migrated a .NET agent-servicing app to AWS/Node.js microservices with Angular; introduced TDD and automated deployments; standardized workflow so one team ran five projects at once.
- University of Richmond, Instructor (2017–2018): taught the inaugural web development bootcamp; 30+ graduates.
- NetApp, Software Engineer II (2015–2016): built pre-sales configuration tools with Node, Hapi.js, and React.
- Prometheus Group, Development Intern → Associate Software Engineer (2012–2015): SAP solutions, including a master data governance product.
- Research In Motion (BlackBerry), Software Tester co-op (2011).
- NC State University, E 115 Teaching Assistant (2008–2011).

## Education

- B.S. Computer Science, North Carolina State University, December 2012.

## Skills

Video streaming, web media players, ad insertion, live streaming, connected TV, JavaScript, Node.js, React, Angular, AWS, CI/CD, engineering leadership, mentoring.