Mike Koetter
Sr Lead Full Stack Developer at The Walt Disney Studios
Los Angeles, California, United States
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SeniorMike Koetter is a senior full-stack developer and engineering leader with 11+ years building production-grade tooling and pipelines for film and animation, now leading full-stack efforts at The Walt Disney Studios. His background spans post-production, NAS storage software, and feature animation pipelines—roles where he designed and shipped server-side stacks, APIs, and UIs while bridging creative and technical teams. Mike combines pragmatic execution with creative problem solving, shaped by eight years crafting early digital intermediates in Hollywood and a stint directing engineering at OpenDrives. He’s an active contributor to open-source editorial tooling (notably improving the OpenTimelineIO adapters and EDL round-trip fidelity), reflecting a focus on interoperability and data integrity. Colleagues describe him as modest yet confident, the kind of engineer who enjoys debugging complex integrations as much as sharing beers with friends.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
English
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Github Skills (10)
adaptor10
python10
adapter10
edit9
editor9
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editing9
video-editing9
testing8
animation8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenTimelineIO
Feb 2019 - Mar 2020
Open Source API and interchange format for editorial timeline information.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 17 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the `cmx_3600` adapter, focusing on enhancing its functionality. They added support for storing and retrieving the 'reel' variable within the metadata to ensure data integrity during the EDL round trip process, and also added a test to ensure this roundtrip functionality. Furthermore, the user made modifications to adapter hooks by passing argument maps, improving the flexibility and configurability of the adapter system. They also refactored and linted the `xges` adapter and associated tests, and added a VIDEO_FORMAT setting for ALE adapter writing.
apivfxanimationinterchange-formattimeline
mikekoetter/node-getent
Sep 2016 - Jul 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
node-jsdatabasesnodejsdatabaseentries
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