Deluxe Digital Studios
Film localisation and post-production · Senior developer
A subtitle authoring tool for a film localisation team, and an encoding farm that had been failing silently — proved against seven deliberate failure cases.
What was wrong
Every sizing request from a customer went through the company's own engineers, because the sizing program was an internal desktop tool and its calculation code was the company's crown jewels.
What I built
A web front end brokering to a pool of virtual machines each running a headless copy of the sizing program, with a watchdog and an admin router. External logins are generic, and the mapping from login to company exists only inside the internal system — so neither the calculation code nor the customer list is ever exposed.
What happened
Customers size their own machines. Deployed 2014 and in use for the decade after.