Blair Liikala
Texas, United States
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Top SchoolBlair Liikala is a video-focused developer and consultant with over 15 years building broadcast, recording, and streaming systems and a decade of professional software experience. He designs and implements cloud broadcasting, automated OTT, and archival recording pipelines, blending hands-on hardware knowledge with web and cloud tooling. Blair has driven production-grade initiatives at institutions like University of North Texas and contributed full-stack enhancements to Contentful apps integrating Mux—adding features like custom domains, captioning, and player support. He’s comfortable moving between consulting, open source, and product engineering, and has a track record of turning fragile workflows into reliable, scalable systems. Based in Texas, he pairs practical operational experience with developer-first tooling to solve unusual video challenges end-to-end.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Telecommunications, BA, Telecommunications at Michigan State University
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Github Skills (15)
apim10
contentful10
javascript10
api10
api-design10
react10
mux10
typescript-types9
google-apps9
typescript9
typescripts9
application8
front-end-development8
android-app8
back-end-development7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
contentful/apps
May 2022 - Sep 2022
Apps on the Contentful Marketplace and resources to build them
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 6 commits, 12 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Blair primarily focused on enhancing the Contentful apps integration with the Mux video platform. Their work included implementing support for custom domains, adding new parameters like audio-only and duration, and enabling Mux Player functionality within the Contentful dashboard. They also addressed bug fixes, made adjustments to upload chunk sizes, and refactored code, including updating the package locations. The user also integrated features like captioning and URL input.
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blairliikala/Caption-Reader
Jan 2023 - Feb 2023
Contributions:3 releases, 165 commits, 47 pushes in 1 month
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