Doug Petkanics
Founder, CEO at Livepeer
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDoug Petkanics is an entrepreneur and software engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling data-driven products and engineering teams. As Founder and CEO of Livepeer he combines blockchain token economics with open media server design to create decentralized, cost-efficient live-streaming infrastructure. He previously co-founded Wildcard and Hyperpublic (acquired by Groupon), serving as VP Engineering and shipping award-winning mobile and web products. His hands-on background spans Ruby/Rails and Python architectures, mobile platforms, mission-control systems for DoD, protocol-level tweaks to BitTorrent, and early contributions to XQuery implementations. Based in New York, he’s drawn to the intersection of decentralization and practical engineering organization building, bringing both product instincts and low-level protocol experience to distributed media systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BSE Computer Science, BSE Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
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Github Skills (103)
smart-contracts10
solidity10
broadcasting10
pad10
video-on-demand10
transcode10
ethereum10
blockchain10
golang9
firefox9
auction9
creator9
apollo9
poc9
chrome-extension9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
dob/LIPs
May 2018 - Apr 2025
Livepeer Improvement Proposals
Contributions:31 pushes, 9 branches, 1 comment in 6 years 11 months
ethereumproposalslivepeerweb3improvement
livepeer/livepeer-swarm
Mar 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:27 commits, 7 PRs, 11 pushes in 4 months
swarmp2pblockchainlivepeerpoc
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