Kevin Mitchell
Business Owner at ASANDA Wireless
Western Cape, South Africa
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Kevin Mitchell is a seasoned IT networking and telecommunications professional and founder of ASANDA Wireless, bringing nearly three decades of industry experience and 12 years as a business owner and consultant. Based in Cape Town, he combines deep technical expertise in wireless mobility, convergence/collaboration, and security with hands-on experience in systems integration, presales engineering at Cisco, and field engineering leadership. Known as an innovative problem solver who pursues excellence, he has a track record of delivering RFP/RFI responses, PoCs, and high- and low-level network designs for diverse clients. Kevin also contributes to open-source media software, having implemented video filter features and FFmpeg-related fixes in the popular mpv player, reflecting practical coding chops beyond his networking domain. He balances a strong professional commitment with family life and outdoor pursuits, bringing a pragmatic, customer-focused mindset to technical strategy and execution.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Business Sc/BSc Computer Science, Business Sc/BSc Computer Science at University of Cape TownSenior School, 12, Senior School, 12 at Hilton College
English, Afrikaans
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c1710
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ffmpeg10
c1110
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tmux9
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ellipse6
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mpv-player/mpv
Apr 2014 - Jun 2020
🎥 Command line video player
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 315 commits, 267 PRs in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Kevin made several contributions to the mpv media player project, focusing on implementing new features and improving existing functionality related to video filters. Their work included adding a new video filter metadata property, enhancing the video filter framework by adding a function to control specific video filters by their label, and implementing a new feature to copy metadata from AVFrames of video filters. The user also fixed various bugs and addressed deprecation warnings related to FFmpeg.
mpvlibavplayeraudiovideo-player
kevmitch/mpv-build
Nov 2014 - Jan 2023
forked copy
Contributions:6 commits, 34 pushes, 7 branches in 8 years 3 months
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