Crunchyroll PS5/PS4/Xbox/N. Switch

Engineering Manager, Game Consoles

Crunchyroll — Sony Pictures Entertainment | 2021–2025

Led the engineering team delivering Crunchyroll's streaming application across PlayStation 4/5, Xbox One/Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch, serving millions of concurrent users globally.

Key Initiative — Tech Stack Migration

Following Sony's acquisition, You.i Engine — the cross-platform UI framework powering all console clients — became unavailable. Led the full technical migration to a new in-house stack under a hard one-year deadline: designed the new architecture, rebuilt CI/CD pipelines from scratch, and maintained feature parity across three console families simultaneously, with zero downtime for 3M+ active subscribers.

Technical Responsibilities

Area	Detail
Platform SDKs	Built and maintained streaming clients against PlayStation SDK (PS4/PS5), Xbox SDK, and Nintendo NDK — handling platform-specific memory constraints, certification requirements, and DRM integration
Adaptive Bitrate Streaming	Owned ABR logic, video pipeline tuning, and playback stability across console hardware profiles
Repository Management	Managed seven console-related repositories — code reviews, dependency management, cross-platform abstraction layers
CI/CD Pipelines	Designed and maintained automated build pipelines, console emulator testing, and submission workflows to Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo certification portals
Diagnostics & Profiling	Crash diagnostics, performance profiling, and ANR/freeze triage on constrained hardware environments
AI Tooling Adoption	Integrated GitHub Copilot early across the team — one of the first teams at Crunchyroll to adopt AI-assisted development, alongside AI-driven localization tooling