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Cisco — Set-Top Box EPGs
Lightweight client-side frameworks powering interactive TV guides across set-top boxes, tablets, and phones — tuned to stay fast on constrained, non-GPU hardware.
Role Engineer · Cisco / Vayavya Labs
Year 2013 — 2015
Domain Connected Devices
Status Shipped
JavaScriptPureMVCHTML5CSS3Node.jsD3.jsJasmine
Building the interface millions of living rooms actually touch — the Electronic Program Guide (EPG) for Cisco’s next-generation set-top boxes.
The work
- A lightweight, client-side JS framework on an MVC-P architecture (PureMVC), designed to port cleanly across set-top boxes, tablets, and smartphones.
- HTML5 / CSS3 for rendering and animation inside the box’s browser, with server-side components written in Node.js and ported onto the device.
- A custom in-browser performance tool (built with D3.js) that measured screen-transition and execution time — so the guide stayed responsive on non-GPU boxes, where every frame is fought for.
- Unit testing with Jasmine, code review, and agile delivery against fast-moving, volatile requirements.
Industry & impact
This is digital TV / pay-TV infrastructure — carrier-grade software running on tightly constrained consumer hardware. It’s where the instinct for performance under real constraints took hold, recognized twice by Cisco (You Amaze, You Inspire) for performance work on non-GPU boxes.