Carl Karsten
Owner at Next Day Video
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolCarl Karsten is a veteran software developer and entrepreneur with 26 years of experience building web and media systems, and he runs two companies focused on software development and conference video services. He specializes in Python, Django, HTML/CSS and SQL across MS, MySQL and PostgreSQL, and teaches a pragmatic crash-course aimed at getting developers productive on existing Python codebases. As owner of Next Day Video he blends deep technical skills with hands-on conference recording and post-production expertise, and as a long-time contributor to the open-source voctomix project he improved real-time ingest, screen capture, ALSA audio support and usability for a Full-HD software live-video-mixer. Based in Chicago, he is comfortable across full-stack work—back-end, front-end and system-level audio/video plumbing—and brings a practical, readability-first approach to maintenance and debugging. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex live-AV requirements into reliable, maintainable tooling that actually ships on time.
26 years of coding experience
San José State University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (6)
video-processing10
python10
alsa9
command-line-interface8
gobject8
develop7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
voc/voctomix
Jan 2016 - Apr 2016
Full-HD Software Live-Video-Mixer in python
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 25 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Carl primarily worked on the client-side ingest application for the `voctomix` project. They added features like screen capture support, improved debugging by adding a monitor, and implemented the ability to use audio from ALSA. Furthermore, the user improved the usability of the application with more helpful help text and by implementing clean shutdown procedures, and also fixed minor issues and made the code more readable.
pythonaudiovideomixervideo-mixer
CarlFK/dvsmon
Nov 2010 - Nov 2016
Contributions:83 commits, 1 PR, 29 pushes in 6 years 1 month
monitormonitoring
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