Dan Dennedy
Principal Engineer at Meltytech, LLC
Oceanside, California, United States
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Top SchoolDan Dennedy is a Principal Engineer with 17 years of experience specializing in multimedia software, video/image processing, transcoding, and streaming. Based in Oceanside, CA, he leads cloud media development at GoPro, where he brought 360°/MAX camera support and HEIC photo handling into production after more than a year as a contractor. As CTO of Meltytech and longtime maintainer of the MLT framework and Shotcut ecosystem, he pairs hands-on engineering with open-source stewardship that reaches beyond typical corporate roles. His background spans media-focused engineering leadership at MobiTV and senior technical roles dating back to the 1990s, reflecting deep, evolving expertise in real-time and cloud media pipelines. Notably, he blends product-facing delivery with low-level multimedia tooling—able to move between systems architecture and practical codec/format integration.
17 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Cincinnati
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Github Skills (88)
opencv10
image-processing10
windows10
msys10
http10
deep-learning10
video-stabilization10
hosting10
qt10
animation10
static-server10
video-processing10
whisper10
linux10
vector-graphics10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mltframework/rugen
Nov 2010 - Feb 2012
Contributions:11 commits in 1 year 3 months
ddennedy/wikimedia-video-editing-server
Nov 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:241 commits, 76 pushes, 33 comments in 9 months
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