Øyvind Smestad
Lead Web-player Developer at TIDAL
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolØyvind Smestad is a Lead Web-player Developer with 14 years of experience specializing in web-based music players and rich front-end experiences. Based in Oslo, he has led web-player development at TIDAL since 2012, combining deep client-side expertise with practical back-end experience from earlier roles using Node.js, Ruby on Rails, PHP and Java. His background includes academic work on distributed web services and agent-based systems, reflecting an ability to bridge research-grade architectures and product-facing interfaces. Comfortable across HTML/CSS/JavaScript stacks, he pairs user-focused design sensibilities with pragmatic engineering for high-quality media playback. Colleagues value his long-term commitment to refining UX in large-scale streaming contexts and his knack for translating complex requirements into smooth, performant web experiences.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Multimedia and Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Multimedia and Computer Science at Gjøvik University College (HiG)Master's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at Massey UniversityHigh School, General Studies, High School, General Studies at Nesbyen Vgs
Norwegian, English, German
Github Skills (173)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tidal-music/eslint-config-tidal
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
ESLint config used by some TIDAL projects
Contributions:1 release, 68 reviews, 77 PRs in 1 year 6 months
tidal-music/tidal-sdk-web
Jan 2024 - Apr 2025
TIDAL SDK for Web
Contributions:156 reviews, 191 PRs, 217 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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