Tao Ren is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with 10+ years building production-grade live streaming, mobile, and web applications. He brings deep domain expertise in live video systems—having built WebRTC/Kurento talk-show apps, custom IP camera integrations, and streaming platforms for broadcasters—alongside hands-on experience in Ember, Angular, Android, iOS, and TypeScript backends. At Uber since 2019, he applies scalable engineering practices learned from leading product-focused teams at SWARM and as a technical partner delivering surveillance and media systems in China. Tao pairs a practical, full-stack mindset with formal CS training (MS, Queens College), and is notable for bridging hardware and software when shipping end-to-end video products.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, GPA: 3.66, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, GPA: 3.66 at Queens College
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer and Application, GPA:3.1, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer and Application, GPA:3.1 at Sun Yat-Sen University
A Kurento Convertor plugin to transcode WebRTC stream to HLS(TS) stream
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 2 years 10 months
convertorwebrtcstreamvideotranscode
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