Kenth Andersson
Software Dev Engineer III at Eastmark AB
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolKenth Andersson is a seasoned Software Development Engineer III based in Stockholm with a decade of professional experience building video and media software across startups and large companies, currently at Amazon. He combines deep systems-level knowledge — honed by decades of tinkering that began with writing his own x86 OS as a teenager — with practical product work from encoding and transcoding systems to front-end subtitle rendering. Kenth has shipped core features for widely used projects like dash.js, improving cross-browser TTML/CEA608 subtitle rendering and video-integrated text layouts. As a founder and longtime owner of small engineering firms, he pairs hands-on coding with product sensibility and operational ownership. Colleagues rely on him for cross-domain problem solving that spans low-level performance, embedded hardware interfaces, and web playback UX. His background reflects a rare mix of nostalgic curiosity (an OS he still evolves) and modern production engineering.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
None, Computer Science, None, Computer Science at Högskolan Dalarna
Swedish, English
Github Skills (7)
html10
stream10
javascript10
360-video10
streaming10
mediasource9
eme8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Dash-Industry-Forum/dash.js
Aug 2015 - Jan 2016
A reference client implementation for the playback of MPEG DASH via Javascript and compliant browsers.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 8 PRs, 2 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Kenth primarily focused on enhancing the HTML rendering capabilities for embedded CEA608 and TTML subtitles within the dash.js player. Their contributions included fixing line padding and new line issues within the TTML parser, ensuring correct display in Chrome, Safari, and other browsers. The user implemented features to resize the TTML rendering view to match the video element and fixed a text track issue, always displaying tracks as "captions". These changes improved the user experience and cross-browser compatibility of the subtitle feature.
msswebrtcplaybackvideomse
MobiTV-AB/dash-live-source-simulator
Jul 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 4 branches in 6 months
simulatordashsimulator-source
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