Emil Heinze
High-End Embedded Systems Architect at mediathand
Hillerød, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolEmil Heinze is a High-End Embedded Systems Architect with 10+ years of experience aligning product development to business goals and mentoring teams to grow alongside the products they build. He blends deep embedded and IoT device expertise with product leadership, having led cross-disciplinary teams to ship medical devices, consumer CPE, and Denmark’s first OTT-only streaming platform. At mediathand he drove product strategy, international engineering integration, and even co-authored a granted international patent; he now advises product direction while architecting embedded solutions at Arrow Electronics. Emil contributes to open source front-end projects—most notably adding robust WebVTT subtitle support to the popular hls.js player—demonstrating hands-on skill across stack boundaries. He also brings practical GDPR and patient-data safety experience from roles as Data Protection Officer and Head of Product Safety, a useful edge for regulated IoT and digital health products. Based in Hillerød, Denmark, he combines technical depth, UX sensibility, and regulatory savvy to turn complex concepts into usable, compliant products.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Primary School, Primary School at Skt. Annæ Gymnasium (folkeskole)High School/Gymnasium Student in Mathematics, High School/Gymnasium Student in Mathematics at Aurehøj AmtsgymnasiumTechnical University of Denmark
English, Danish, French
Github Skills (11)
html10
mediasource10
javascript10
substr10
hlsl10
360-video10
webvtt10
subtitle10
streaming10
player10
ecmascript9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
video-dev/hls.js
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
HLS.js is a JavaScript library that plays HLS in browsers with support for MSE.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 9 comments in 27 days
Contributions summary:Emil primarily contributed to the implementation of subtitle features within the HLS.js library. Their work involved parsing and handling WebVTT subtitle files, integrating them with the player, and synchronizing subtitles with the video stream. The commits included modifications to the playlist loader, timeline controller, and subtitle stream controller to facilitate subtitle track loading, switching, and processing. These changes enhanced the player's ability to handle and display subtitles.
hlsjshls-streamplaybackhtml5stream
mediathand/hls.js
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 tag in 1 month
hls-jshttp-clientdailymotionvideomse
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