Rahim Alwer
Senior Software Engineer
Spent the last four years working on open-source web video players, design systems, and framework integrations. Spend most of my time outside of work with family, watching movies, eating pizza, and gaming. I've been known as the video guy at some places because I read the <video> spec (once).
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Published on January 15, 2026 (6 days ago)
6 Years Building Video Players. 9 Billion Requests. Starting Over.
By Rahim Alwer • 12 min read • Product
Vidstack brought Radix-like composition and framework-native components to video players. Now its developer experience and API design principles are helping to shape Video.js v10.
Published on September 9, 2025 (4 months ago)
Even devtools need great dashboards
By Darius, Rahim, and Steve • 7 min read • Engineering & Company
We’ve made some big changes to the Mux dashboard, and learned some big lessons about developer experience along the way