Peter Hentges
Senior Web Developer at Strategic Education, Inc
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolPeter Hentges is a Senior Web Developer based in Minneapolis with over a decade of hands-on experience delivering accessible, standards-driven web experiences and interactive learning materials. He has a long tenure at Strategic Education/Capella University where he translated business requirements into practical UI, content and courseware solutions while championing web standards and accessibility. Early roles in information architecture and webmastering sharpened his skills in content strategy, usability and measurable site improvements, including a full redesign from table-based layouts to modern XHTML/CSS. An active front-end contributor to the widely used mediaelement project, he has fixed cross-browser UI bugs and improved keyboard accessibility for HTML5 media controls. Combining technical depth with business analysis and project leadership, he brings a user-focused, pragmatic approach to complex web projects.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering at University of Minnesota
Stackoverflow
3reputation
196reached
0answers
2questions
Github Skills (11)
html10
debug10
javascript10
user-interface10
html5-video10
video-player10
css9
accessibility7
cors6
gulp6
nodejs6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mediaelement/mediaelement
Jul 2012 - Jan 2022
HTML5 <audio> or <video> player with support for MP4, WebM, and MP3 as well as HLS, Dash, YouTube, Facebook, SoundCloud and others with a common HTML5 MediaElement API, enabling a consistent UI in all browsers.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 9 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the user interface of the media player. Their contributions addressed issues related to control visibility, particularly when using keyboard navigation. They updated CSS and JavaScript files to resolve these problems, ensuring the controls behave as expected and are visible under various user interactions. Additionally, the user made adjustments to the poster image's accessibility.
mp3youtubevideo-playerhtml5video
peterh-capella/hylia-netlify
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
Contributions:12 PRs, 8 pushes, 13 branches in 3 days
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.