Sean McCarthy leads OTT Live Engineering efforts at YouTube where he is responsible for live acquisition infrastructure as well as software used to ingest, process, and deliver premium OTT content. He has deep expertise in large scale CDN deployments, live workflow orchestration, video analytics and encoding. In addition to his work at YouTube, Sean serves as co-chair of the Streaming Video Technology Alliance (SVTA) Measurement & QoE working group where he is dedicated to advancing industry standards and best practices for data in media workflows, focused on driving automation and actionable data collection. Prior to working at YouTube, Sean held positions in product management and engineering at Paramount, Bitmovin, and Akamai Technologies.