Benjamin Pracht

Benjamin Pracht has diverse work experience in the software engineering field. Benjamin is currently employed at LiveKit as a Software Engineer. Prior to this, they worked at Twitter for six years, starting as the second member of the Periscope video backend team and eventually becoming a Senior Staff Software Engineer. In this role, they designed, implemented, and maintained the Periscope live video backend, integrating it with the Twitter systems.

Before their time at Twitter, Benjamin worked at Apple for seven years as a Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead. During their tenure, they focused on the development and maintenance of iOS and OS X asynchronous, multithreaded video playback, editing, and transcoding pipeline. Benjamin also played a significant role in implementing timed metadata support in HTTP Live Streaming and developing a rasterizer supporting affine transforms and alpha blending.

Prior to Apple, Benjamin worked at Veodia, Inc as a Principal Engineer for three years. Benjamin was responsible for designing and developing a web and cloud-based video recording, storage, and streaming platform. Benjamin also contributed to the development and integration of the client-side video recording browser plugin and the design and implementation of a scalable, cloud-based video streaming and processing server infrastructure using x264 and ffmpeg.

In addition, Benjamin worked at VideoLAN as a Developer for six years, where they focused on software development. Benjamin also completed their Master's Thesis at Micronas GmbH.

Overall, Benjamin Pracht's work experience showcases their expertise in software engineering, with a focus on live video streaming, backend development, and multimedia technologies.

Benjamin Pracht has a Master's degree in Information Technology and Telecommunication from CentraleSupélec. Benjamin also holds a Master's degree in Information and Communication Technology from the Technical University of Munich. The specific years they attended these institutions are unknown.