Thord Setsaas
Senior Staff Engineer - Video Technology at Sportradar
Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolThord Setsaas is a Senior Staff Engineer specializing in video technology with 11 years of software experience and a deep Java background. He has driven architecture and hands-on development of a custom video encoding solution at Sportradar that supports 300,000+ live events annually, spanning distributed job orchestration, multi-format delivery (RTMP, HLS, DASH, WebRTC) and AWS media operations. Known as a fast learner and structured contributor, he blends backend engineering, DevOps and on-call reliability work with strong presentation skills used to communicate complex streaming systems. His career includes foundational backend and optimization work with Elasticsearch/Kibana and earlier contributions to enterprise identity systems at SAP, demonstrating comfort across high-throughput and enterprise domains. Based in Trondheim, he combines pragmatic problem-solving with a penchant for tooling—ffmpeg, Wowza plugins and custom SVG stream graphics—soften the boundary between infrastructure and product.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at California Lutheran University
Norwegian, English
Github Skills (74)
backend-api10
isomorphic10
dom10
nodejs10
scoring10
server-side-rendering10
frontend10
javascript9
client-side-rendering9
golang9
api9
ui-components9
backend9
session-manager9
zigbee9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
thordy/cakeapp
Mar 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:187 commits, 11 PRs, 149 pushes in 2 years 7 months
javascriptexpressnodejsnodeplayground
kcapp/api
Feb 2018 - Jan 2023
kcapp Backend API
Contributions:1 review, 350 commits, 12 PRs in 5 years
golangapibackendnodejsbackend-api
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