Shadrach Kisten Email Address

Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer

Sesame Workshop is the nonprofit media and educational organization behind Sesame Street, the pioneering television show that has been reaching and teaching children since 1969. Today, Sesame Workshop is an innovative force for change, with a mission to help kids everywhere grow smarter, stronger, and kinder. We're active in more than 150 countries, serving vulnerable children through a wide range of media, formal education, and philanthropically-funded social impact programs, each grounded in rigorous research and tailored to the needs and cultures of the communities we serve.

An innovative and industry-recognized leader with over twenty years of engineering and management experience in the media and entertainment industry. -Proven track record of leadership in applying data-driven models across the media landscape in building hybrid and cloud agonistics multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, Google - GPC) scalable distributed systems for media contents (Live News, short and long-form, episodic, etc.) and its life cycle (planning, production, post-production, distribution, rights and asset management, storage, archiving) -Hands-on experience leading digital media engineering team for large scale digital media products (Web, Streaming, OTT, mobile apps, SVOD) using current language (JavaScript, PHP, Python, C++, C #, Java, Swift, etc.), CI/CD toolsets (Jenkins, Bitbucket, Git, Bamboo, etc.), container services (Docker, Azure Containers services), Restful API automation for rapid development and deployment -Strong executive management skills with the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously alongside C- level Executives and key stakeholders -Highly regarded industry leader in building and managing multiple engineering verticals to work in a collaborative, cross-team capacity to plan, build and maintain internal and SaaS-based systems to meet business tactical and strategic objectives -Diverse technical background with a clear vision of the technology industry trends -Skilled in setting product and technology roadmaps & a thought leader in technology strategies and partnering with tech company’s CEO’s, and CTO’s, Engineering team to influence their product roadmap -Experience in the oversight and management of Operational and Capital budget of over 100MM. -Strong acumen on business operational accounting, finance, P&L, cybersecurity compliance, and regulatory standards -Recipients of multiple innovative awards