# Levi Hassel

> Senior Software Engineer @ Hudl | Distributed Media Systems

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/levihassel

I build distributed media systems that ingest 120 TB daily and manage the storage lifecycle of nearly 100 PB in S3. I've led projects at Hudl driving $9M in annual savings, including a 58% cut in encoding costs by scaling on-demand encoding through AWS Lambda from a prototype to millions of users. I enjoy telling stories through system metrics and then going after the efficiency gains they reveal.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer, Core Video @ Hudl
Jan 2022 – Present
• Cut Hudl's total encoding costs by 58% ($3M+ annually) and slowed S3 storage growth (averaging 120 TB daily) by 35% by leading a multi-year initiative from prototype to 200K daily users, rendering lower-quality HLS video on-demand via AWS Lambda and CloudFront
• Reclaimed 8+ PB annually by architecting an SQS-backed storage lifecycle platform that automatically hides and later safely deletes unreferenced S3 media, eliminating months of manual engineering oversight per year
• Led delivery of a low-latency live video ingest and distribution pipeline using ECS, built to support professional sports leagues and serve 1.3M SRT/RTMP streams annually
• Migrated critical flows of media microservice processing 50K multi-hour videos daily to modern .NET on ECS
• Shape cross-team technical direction through design reviews, POCs and partnerships with AWS and Dolby
• Delivered video splitting and trimming backend, saving Support ~600 hours per year and releasing to users soon
• Mentor engineers through onboarding, pairing, code review and one-on-ones

### Software Engineer, Core Video @ Hudl
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022
• Saved $5M annually by leading evolution of a deletion pipeline through four iterations, removing 60B S3 objects
• Architected autoscaling and queues for migration of encoding infrastructure—which ingests hundreds of hours of video per minute—to Terraform-managed EC2, saving $450K annually and eliminating a single point of failure
• Served as Ops Manager, refining Hudl’s incident response processes, expanding observability and leading retros
• Built core components of an event-driven video hour calculation service to enforce storage limits for 100K teams
• Scaled media metadata MongoDB cluster to support seasonal traffic spikes by sharding and adding read replicas
• Reduced video buffering for millions of users by building a custom MP4 preloader

### Software Engineer @ Stone Fin Technology
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018
• Eliminated restaurant stock shortages by building a real-time inventory tracking system using C# and JavaScript

### Software Engineering Intern, Office of Research & Economic Development @ University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
• Implemented a sitewide log aggregation pipeline, reducing average bug diagnosis time from hours to minutes


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/levihassel
- GitHub: https://github.com/LeviHassel

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Last updated: 2026-03-22