John Stebbins
Executive Vice President at JetHead
Carlsbad, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Stebbins is an experienced technology executive with 18 years in software leadership, currently serving as Executive Vice President at JetHead in Carlsbad, California. He combines strategic leadership with hands-on engineering roots, holding a BS in Computer Science from UC Riverside. John has practical open-source credentials as a back-end contributor to the well-known HandBrake project, where he improved subtitle handling, timestamping, and encoder compatibility—work that reflects attention to edge-case media processing. His career blends long-term operational oversight with deep technical problem-solving in multimedia systems and product delivery. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex engineering issues into reliable product features and stable releases. Outside the executive view, he still dives into debugging nuanced issues that improve user-facing media playback and interoperability.
17 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of California, Riverside
Github Skills (8)
timestamping10
substr10
video-encoding10
ffmpeg10
subtitle10
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
mkv9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
HandBrake/HandBrake
Jun 2008 - Jan 2023
HandBrake's main development repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 reviews, 3250 commits, 265 PRs in 14 years 10 months
Contributions summary:John primarily worked on fixing issues related to subtitle handling and video encoding, focusing on timestamping, subtitle display, and ensuring compatibility with various formats. The contributions include addressing problems in subtitle display and duration calculation in the sync process, particularly for subtitle formats like SSA and DVB subtitles. They also worked on fixing issues in video encoders and added improvements to chapter marking.
gplv2handbrakemulti-platformjavavideo-transcoding
flathub/fr.handbrake.ghb.Plugin.IntelMediaSDK
May 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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