Rick Kern
Senior Video Software Engineer at Pinterest
Greater Scranton Area United States
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Top SchoolRick Kern is a Senior Video Software Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building and optimizing video pipelines across mobile, desktop, and real-time streaming systems. He has deep expertise in MPEG-2/MP4 containers, H.264 codec work (including hardware encode support contributed to FFmpeg for iOS and macOS), and GPU-accelerated image processing using OpenGL/GLSL. Rick has led media architecture and ingestion work for low-latency CDNs and real-time comms, architected cross-platform media libraries, and founded an independent video software shop, demonstrating both product and systems-level thinking. Currently at Pinterest, he blends contributions to open-source tooling with production engineering at scale, and his background shows a rare combination of Blu-ray-era constraints through modern HLS/SRT workflows. Trained in mathematics, computer science, and statistics, he brings analytical rigor to performance-critical media engineering.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Mathematics, CS, Statistics, B.S., Mathematics, CS, Statistics at Wilkes University
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Github Skills (31)
mkv10
netflix10
rtsp10
h26410
h26510
matroska10
rtmp10
playing10
mov10
mixer10
ffmpeg10
tiling10
mpeg10
audio10
fft10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
vdodev/maplang
Aug 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 90 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
kernrj/usgs-water-stats-to-mqtt
Nov 2022 - Oct 2023
Contributions:1 release, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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