Pete Ahearn
Principal Software Engineer at Comcast
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPete Ahearn is a Principal Software Engineer with over two decades of experience designing interactive consumer products for the cable and streaming industries, currently leading architecture and development at Comcast from Philadelphia. He combines deep hands-on expertise—from OCAP-era middleware to modern TCP/IP streaming—with a preference for technical leadership that keeps him coding alongside mentoring teams. Known for turning ambitious product visions into maintainable systems, he excels at navigating legacy platform constraints while introducing modern architectures. Pete’s longevity in the domain gives him rare institutional knowledge of how consumer video platforms evolve, and he deliberately avoids a pure management track to retain technical fluency.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Drexel University
Github Skills (9)
sdk10
vcenter9
yang9
openrpc9
opc9
javascript8
typescript6
discovery2
open-source1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rdkcentral/Ripple
Aug 2023 - Apr 2025
Ripple is a synonym for Firebolt Implementation, it is a Rust-based Application gateway that supports loading dynamic extensions. Ripple will provide a Firebolt Gateway which will be used by Distributors and App Developers to interact with the Application platform to discover, launch, and manage video streaming applications.
Contributions:376 reviews, 129 PRs, 362 pushes in 1 year 7 months
pahearn73/firebolt-manage-sdk
Jul 2022 - Jul 2022
A versioned repository of OpenRPC JSON-Schemas for the Firebolt Manage SDK, which is used by apps that manage device settings and preferences
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
json-schemasversionedopenrpcfireboltsdk
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