Doug Petkanics
Doug Petkanics is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Livepeer, a decentralized video infrastructure protocol that has been live on the Ethereum network since 2018. He is an entrepreneur and software engineer passionate about addressing the challenges in blockchain and decentralization-focused technology as well as those involved in developing, leading, and scaling effective engineering organizations. He also focuses on protocol design, cryptoeconomic incentives, and scalability.
EDUCATION AND EARLY CAREER
- Petkanics earned a BSE degree from the University of Pennsylvania where he focused on research related to decentralized systems, including the BitTorrent protocol.
- He started his career in 2004 as an Intern at AT&T Labs and Anzus.
- He served as Founder and Vice President of Engineering at Hyperpublic and Wildcard, where he focused on architecting and building real-time data processing systems.
- He authored the Livepeer protocol and MerkleMine distribution algorithms, both of which have been focused on designing incentives for wide and active participation in decentralized networks.
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE
- Data-focused architecture
- Agile development (Ruby/Rails, Python)
- Mobile development (iPhone, Android)
- Enterprise web applications
- Mission control software for the Department of Defense
- Modifications to the BitTorrent protocol
- Contributions to the original XQuery implementation
MEDIA
- Petkanics has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.