Tech Hey there! Software engineer here, my first post

[stanleyFogger]

Hey everyone! Backend dev with 10+ years in adult video streaming.

Figured I'd introduce myself properly rather than just lurk.

I'm a senior backend software engineer and technical architect, been working in and around adult video streaming infrastructure for over a decade. Not on the content side — I live in the backend plumbing that makes these platforms actually function.

What I've actually built:

Live streaming platform backends — media server architecture, RTMP/WebRTC ingest pipelines, low-latency HLS delivery, broadcaster session management, transcoding orchestration.
I've dealt with the fun stuff: hot account contention during peak shows, sub-second tip event delivery at concurrent scale, and the reliability requirements that come with live traffic you can't pause or replay.

Video session management — the full lifecycle of show types: public broadcasts, private sessions, group shows, tip shows, spy mode. The state machines, access control, session routing, and the real-time coordination between performers and viewers that makes these work correctly under load. If you've ever had a private show bleed into a public room or a group show that wouldn't close cleanly, I've rewritten legacy systems to avoid all those issues into modern, scalable and maintainable microservices.

Token event systems — the show-side mechanics: tip goals, token thresholds that trigger performer actions, real-time goal progress delivery to connected viewers. Getting this right under concurrent tipping at scale is a non-trivial systems problem.

Tech background:
Java (Spring Boot, microservices, the works). Comfortable with WebRTC and media server internals — Wowza customization via Java modules, MediaMTX, LiveKit, FFMPEG and similar. Used to working in environments where mainstream cloud services won't touch you and you have to build on an alternative infrastructure stack.

What I'm looking for:
Remote contract or project work — platform architecture, backend development, streaming infrastructure, or session management system work. I'm EU-based but work comfortably in EST timezone overlap, which covers the bulk of US business hours without issue.

I'm not here to sell anything or spam. I've found that the most interesting problems in this industry don't show up on job boards — they show up in threads like this. If you're running infrastructure that's hitting walls — scaling issues, Wowza limitations (or price gauging), show session bugs, real-time delivery problems — happy to talk.

DMs open.

[Woody W.]

Welcome to GFY!

[Duced]

Sounds like you got some solid advanced experience! Bump for you!

[VikingMan]

Debt collection is a growth industry. They even have conventions and these days the women are hotter than at the porn conventions. True story

[Killswitch]

Why did you use AI to write your post on a dying shitposting smut board?

[CaptainHowdy]

Originally Posted by Killswitch

a dying shitposting smut board

[Cameltoepro]

Welcome to the zoo!

[Spunky]

Welcolme to the board, best of luck

[Mahadeva]

Originally Posted by Killswitch

Why did you use AI to write your post on a dying shitposting smut board?

Laziness. Doesn't bode well for his coding.

[nakeddutch]

[INever]

Originally Posted by Killswitch

Why did you use AI to write your post on a dying shitposting smut board?

how could you tell?!?!?

answer. it's my job, mam.

[jiaoyue]

Originally Posted by stanleyFogger

Hey everyone! Backend dev with 10+ years in adult video streaming.

Figured I'd introduce myself properly rather than just lurk.

I'm a senior backend software engineer and technical architect, been working in and around adult video streaming infrastructure for over a decade. Not on the content side — I live in the backend plumbing that makes these platforms actually function.

What I've actually built:

Live streaming platform backends — media server architecture, RTMP/WebRTC ingest pipelines, low-latency HLS delivery, broadcaster session management, transcoding orchestration.
I've dealt with the fun stuff: hot account contention during peak shows, sub-second tip event delivery at concurrent scale, and the reliability requirements that come with live traffic you can't pause or replay.

Video session management — the full lifecycle of show types: public broadcasts, private sessions, group shows, tip shows, spy mode. The state machines, access control, session routing, and the real-time coordination between performers and viewers that makes these work correctly under load. If you've ever had a private show bleed into a public room or a group show that wouldn't close cleanly, I've rewritten legacy systems to avoid all those issues into modern, scalable and maintainable microservices.

Token event systems — the show-side mechanics: tip goals, token thresholds that trigger performer actions, real-time goal progress delivery to connected viewers. Getting this right under concurrent tipping at scale is a non-trivial systems problem.

Tech background:
Java (Spring Boot, microservices, the works). Comfortable with WebRTC and media server internals — Wowza customization via Java modules, MediaMTX, LiveKit, FFMPEG and similar. Used to working in environments where mainstream cloud services won't touch you and you have to build on an alternative infrastructure stack.

What I'm looking for:
Remote contract or project work — platform architecture, backend development, streaming infrastructure, or session management system work. I'm EU-based but work comfortably in EST timezone overlap, which covers the bulk of US business hours without issue.

I'm not here to sell anything or spam. I've found that the most interesting problems in this industry don't show up on job boards — they show up in threads like this. If you're running infrastructure that's hitting walls — scaling issues, Wowza limitations (or price gauging), show session bugs, real-time delivery problems — happy to talk.

DMs open.

Interesting topic, thanks for sharing!

[Duced]

Originally Posted by Killswitch

Why did you use AI to write your post on a dying shitposting smut board?

I think it's more so for a fact that non native English speakers now use AI to translate wording rather using direct Google Translate or whatever they would have typically used in the past.

When AI is in the pipeline it will add the personality fluff in the output stream along the line depending on the model they use.

It's not always perfect and will hallucinate or not just convert certain founds as found in this monstrosity:

https://gfy.com/23441901-post1.html

Fun fact: It is known that some models based on my previous Stable Diffusion research that they respond better when you give it a Chinese prompt rather than an English one.