Mike Ressler is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 14 years of experience building consumer and web platforms for sports technology. As the first technical hire and current CTO at Diamond Kinetics, he has driven end-to-end delivery of mobile, backend, and web systems that turn motion data into real-time performance insights for baseball and softball. He previously founded and led StatEasy, a funded startup that synchronized game statistics with video for coaches, demonstrating a strong founder’s drive and product sensibility. Mike’s hands-on engineering roots include backend work on multimedia tooling—contributing code quality and video-filter support to the JAVE Java ffmpeg wrapper—which underscores his practical expertise in media and signal-rich applications. Based in Pittsburgh, he combines academic CS training from Carnegie Mellon with startup grit to ship maintainable, extensible systems in fast-paced environments.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
The JAVE (Java Audio Video Encoder) library is Java wrapper on the ffmpeg project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:1 review, 57 commits, 10 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the JAVE library by addressing code quality issues. Their work involved removing unused variables, which suggests a focus on code cleanup and reducing warnings. Additionally, the user made changes related to the implementation of various video filters and support. This includes the implementation of functionality related to the drawtext filter and the overlay filters.
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Mike Ressler - Chief Technology Officer at Diamond Kinetics