Mark Boas
Chief Technology Officer at The Hyperaudio Project
Florence, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Boas is a seasoned technology leader and media technologist with 15+ years building web-native audio/video and speech-to-text products, currently serving as CTO of TheirStory in Florence. A serial founder and ex-CTO of Trint, he combines hands-on engineering with R&D into transcript-based representations of audiovisual archives and AI-driven sense-making for oral history. He co-created jPlayer, leads the Hyperaudio project, and contributes practical interactive JavaScript examples to MDN, reflecting a deep commitment to web standards and developer education. Known for community-building and open-source advocacy, he blends product vision, team leadership, and front-end craftsmanship to make media more accessible and discoverable.
15 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh CampusBSc (Hons) Computer Science, BSc (Hons) Computer Science at Teesside University
English, Italian
Github Skills (7)
javascript10
arraybuffer10
dataview10
typed-array10
es6-promise9
atomics9
atomic9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mdn/interactive-examples
Aug 2017 - Nov 2017
Home of the MDN live code editor interactive examples
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:54 commits, 28 PRs, 177 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Mark contributed to the MDN interactive examples repository by adding and modifying examples related to JavaScript's `ArrayBuffer`, `DataView`, `SharedArrayBuffer`, `Atomics`, `Promise`, and TypedArray objects. These examples appear to be designed to demonstrate the usage and functionality of these JavaScript features. The contributions involved creating new interactive code examples, modifying existing ones for clarity, and ensuring consistent formatting.
reactcssjavascriptlive-codenodejs
hyperaudio/hyperaudio-lite-editor
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
A lightweight transcript editor for editing and correcting STT generated timed transcripts
Contributions:12 releases, 100 commits, 182 PRs in 1 year 6 months
transcript-editortimedtranscriptssttediting
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