Nathan Payne
Most product decisions are invisible—until they aren’t.
Over the past ten years, I have built the streaming platforms behind Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN. I started at MLB.com and BAMTECH, joined Disney through the 2017 acquisition, and have spent the last five years leading the Native Client Platform across PlayStation, Xbox, Amazon Fire TV, Linux set-top boxes, and smart TVs.
The work that matters most is usually at the seam between systems—where a codec mismatch, a certification gap, or a failed-fix loop becomes a support burden at scale. I treat operational ambiguity as a product problem.
The current seam is where AI coding agents meet shipped software. Building products end-to-end with Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, under an enforcement system I designed to catch the failure modes agents miss. Open to senior product and platform roles—especially where streaming infrastructure, developer tools, or AI-augmented workflows are the center of gravity.
Read my résuméSelected writing on building with AI coding agents.
- A Perfect Score on the Wrong Axis: 116 Review Findings, Zero Rejected, One Escape
- Two Blues, One Composition: How a Design Critique Became a Forensics Exercise
- The HTML Mock-up Is the Spec: How I Got Visual Work Out of Claude Code
- How Making a Page Responsive Led to a Full Astro Site Implementation
- Agent Approval Workflow and the Genesis of Mergepath