Summary
Dan Dennedy is a Principal Engineer with 17 years of experience specializing in multimedia software, video/image processing, transcoding, and streaming. Based in Oceanside, CA, he leads cloud media development at GoPro, where he brought 360°/MAX camera support and HEIC photo handling into production after more than a year as a contractor. As CTO of Meltytech and longtime maintainer of the MLT framework and Shotcut ecosystem, he pairs hands-on engineering with open-source stewardship that reaches beyond typical corporate roles. His background spans media-focused engineering leadership at MobiTV and senior technical roles dating back to the 1990s, reflecting deep, evolving expertise in real-time and cloud media pipelines. Notably, he blends product-facing delivery with low-level multimedia tooling—able to move between systems architecture and practical codec/format integration.
17 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Cincinnati