Patrick Kunka
Senior Software Engineer, Streaming Algorithms at Netflix
Los Gatos, California, United States
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Top SchoolPatrick Kunka is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in streaming algorithms and video player architecture, currently applying his expertise at Netflix after leading player engineering at DAZN. He brings 20 years of web and JavaScript experience with 12 years focused on video-on-the-web, shipping MSE/EME players, ABR algorithms, and modular TypeScript architectures across browsers, TVs and consoles. At DAZN he designed a proprietary adaptive player and ABR/resilience systems that measurably improved QoE and unlocked multi-million dollar ad revenue via multi-period DASH support. He founded KunkaLabs and is the author of MixItUp, a long-lived, high-performance JS library used on tens of thousands of sites with over 4.5k GitHub stars, demonstrating a practical open-source impact. Patrick combines hands-on engineering with architectural leadership—building testing frameworks, deployment tooling, and cross-platform UI libraries—to scale teams and platforms. His background in music performance hints at a disciplined, creative approach to complex engineering problems.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Music Performance, Master of Music Performance at New England Conservatory of MusicBachelor of Music Performance and Composition, Bachelor of Music Performance and Composition at Berklee College of MusicAberdeen Grammar School
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Github Skills (26)
javascript10
multiselect10
css10
select-all10
typescript10
select210
dom-manipulation10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
js10
typescripts10
vanilla-javascript10
dropdown10
selectbox10
testing9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
patrickkunka/easydropdown
Dec 2013 - Feb 2020
A lightweight library for building beautiful styleable <select> elements
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 159 commits, 49 PRs in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to the development of the front-end components for a lightweight `<select>` element library. The contributions involve setting up the project structure, adding initial code, and implementing features related to state management, mapping attributes and options from the `<select>` element, and event handling. Further development included styling and UI improvements, along with adding tests.
reactmenustylecsselements
patrickkunka/mixitup
Mar 2014 - Oct 2018
A high-performance, dependency-free library for animated filtering, sorting, insertion, removal and more
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 42 commits, 11 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to the MixItUp library by updating the demo files, specifically focusing on the `mixitup.min.js` and associated demo files. They updated the library version and build information in the header comments of the minified JavaScript file. The user also added a new demo, which highlights global control scoping, further demonstrating their involvement in showcasing and maintaining the library's functionality through example usage.
animationlibrary-freeanimatedinsertionjavascript
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