PRINCIPAL OTT & WEB3 ARCHITECT

Streaming platform architecture, cross-chain content rights, and technical due diligence — available for focused, high-impact engagements.

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About Ryc

Built and scaled platforms serving 40 million subscribers across seven countries now available as a principal architect and advisor.

Ryc Brownrigg — Principal OTT & Web3 Architect

Twenty-five years of shipping consumer technology at scale, from the world's first portable subscription video service to an OTT platform handling 300,000+ concurrent live streams. Now applying that depth to architecture reviews, Web3 feasibility, and technical due diligence — as an independent principal.

40M+

Subscribers served across 7 countries

Credentials
OTT Architecture Polkadot / Substrate DRM & Content Rights ink! Smart Contracts Streaming Platforms Technical Due Diligence XCM Cross-Chain Fractional CTO OTT Architecture Polkadot / Substrate DRM & Content Rights ink! Smart Contracts Streaming Platforms Technical Due Diligence XCM Cross-Chain Fractional CTO OTT Architecture Polkadot / Substrate DRM & Content Rights ink! Smart Contracts Streaming Platforms Technical Due Diligence XCM Cross-Chain Fractional CTO OTT Architecture Polkadot / Substrate DRM & Content Rights ink! Smart Contracts Streaming Platforms Technical Due Diligence XCM Cross-Chain Fractional CTO
Data streams at scale

Scale that most architects never encounter and never forget.

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Paying subscribers served by HorizonGo at Liberty Global — across iOS, Android, STB, and web on a single unified codebase.

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Concurrent live streams handled in a single UEFA event — the architecture still running today across seven operating companies.

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Years of shipping consumer technology at scale, from CES keynote launches to production Polkadot smart contracts.

Currently writing code, not just reviewing it.

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InkTix — Live on Polkadot

Full-stack dApp deployed to Westend Asset Hub. 52 ink! message handlers covering dynamic pricing, NFT ticket minting, anti-scalping, and XCM cross-chain transfers.

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CCRMS — MSc Thesis Artifact

Substrate parachain with custom pallets for cross-chain content rights. 17 extrinsics, Snowbridge integration, 10,000-iteration Monte Carlo simulation, and an 8-finding security audit.

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AI-Assisted Engineering

Daily practitioner in Cursor and Claude Code. Building with Rust, ink!, TypeScript, and Next.js — a principal who still writes, reviews, and ships real code.

Network architecture

Experience built at

Liberty Global
Starz
University of Malta
Polkadot
Streaming Video Technology Alliance
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