Michael Dale
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Founder/CTO - Super Carl the Super Connector
California, United States
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Founder/CTOSuper CarlMar 2025 - Current (1 year 8 months)Leading technical development for supercarl.ai across agent voice, chat and tasks.- VSenior Vice President of Engineering (Venu Sports)Venu SportsJul 2024 - Jan 2025 (7 months)• Led AI & core engineering for Venu Sports streaming service towards launch.
● Built out a team of 50+ engineers across Data, BE, Apps, Web, AI, Program & Quality.
• Spearheaded AI initiatives around point of interest tracking for realtime landscape to vertical video, content summarization, and a robust chat agent grounded in realtime sports data and sports articles on the web.
• Got Venu Sports App ready for launch across 12+ platforms in collaboration with Fox digital team. - Chief Technology OfficerCaffeineApr 2021 - Jul 2024 (3 years 4 months)Lead Engineering at Caffeine.tv:
● Built a world class streaming platform that has grown to 61 million monthly users and 4 million per day; on Web, Mobile, embed network, Roku, FireTV, Chromecast, Android TV.
● Aggregated 200 sports partners across 17 categories of sports with hardened ingest system.
● Built virtual gifting, subscriptions, PPV and advertising products.
● Built a world class team, worked with world class board, and world class set of investors.
● Created a unique and disruptive angle for live streaming sports.
Innovative Streaming Tech posts / talks:
● Low Latency high availability - - Head of Video & CDN EngineeringCaffeineDec 2020 - Apr 2021 (5 months)
- VP EngineeringCrunchyrollDec 2015 - Dec 2020 (5 years 1 month)● Managed cloud platform transition for serving 4 billion+ watch minutes per month.
● Helped scale Crunchyroll to more than 5 million subscribers
● Built engineering culture via hack-days, tech conferences, speaking opportunities for the team, tech ownership & mentorship including Demuxed, NAB, StreamMedia, IBC
● Managed team of 70+ engineers. Lead recruiting on key roles. Managed remote teams; established cross functional team efforts.
● AVOD audience / total audience grew to more than 20 million MAU across more than a dozen OTT platforms.
● Optimized cloud utilization, established multi-cdn JIT multi-protocol VOD delivery driving down cost 20-50% relative industry baselines.
● Lead efforts on OTT pl - Sr. Director of Product ManagementKalturaJan 2013 - Nov 2015 (2 years 11 months)Supported product media road map alignment with the worlds largest content publishers and service operators including Disney, Fox, ABC, Vodafone, MediaCorp etc. Built product vision, road map strategy against market opportunities, built a competitive product analysis papers, assessed customer needs, and built high profile media products which won market acclaim and grew Kaltura customer base.
Products include the Kaltura player, live streaming platform, digital rights management, client and server-side ad monetization systems.
Work on product releases has included architecture review with developers, engagement with APIs, supporting partner developer ecosystem, road map alignment with internal & external stakehold - Lead Front End ArchitectKalturaJan 2011 - Jan 2013 (2 years 1 month)Leads development on front end cross platform JavaScript and native application video services.
● Architected a front end video platform to support many mobile platforms ( Android, OSX ) and desktop HTML5, to maximize performance, platform compatibility and ease of development for 3rd party integrations.
● Developed road map, overall architecture and targeted product features, and lead small team of developers.
● Gave talks and helped build messaging on HTML5 platform developments and Kaltura's offering in webinars, conferences and marking.
● Established automated testing procedures, development workflows with git and lead internal development efforts tie together automated testing with code review and git developme - Lead Open Media EngineerWikimedia FoundationJan 2008 - Jan 2012 (4 years 1 month)Managed community developer participation with with Wikipedia experimental online video development efforts. Developed a video playback library and html5 video editing solution.
For coverage of some of the projects see respective blog posts: http://goo.gl/DzoZs
Also worked with partners such as the Mozilla foundation in overseeing grant work to advance open source and royalty free video: http://goo.gl/Oh88e - Research AssociateUC Santa CruzAug 2006 - Aug 2008 (2 years 1 month)● Co-Found and developed the metavid.org. Funded via NSF and a Sunlight Foundation grant, Michael developed a participatory temporal semantic metadata search system for online congressional video footage. Worked with EFF and University Law Center, around legal issues with the initial liberation of CSPAN Congressional floor footage.
● Worked with professor Warren Sack, on University Research projects. Including NSF funded research on automated political point of view discovery in large scale online conversations.
● Worked on site in Argentina on interdisciplinary research projects around issues of representation in South America
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- Masters in Fine Arts, Digital Arts and New MediaUniversity of California Santa CruzJan 2004 - Jan 2006 (2 years 1 month)
- Bachlers of Arts, Double Major: Computer Science and Film & Digital MediaUniversity of California Santa CruzJan 1999 - Jan 2004 (5 years 1 month)
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- KKaltura HTML5Jan 2011 - Current (15 years 10 months)This is a structured listing of kaltura player features and associated javascript API. It integrates automated test files, player documentation and dynamic configurability.
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- SSpeaking EngagementsFormatted linked list: http://goo.gl/uoTr6
HTML5 Video Full Throttle, HTML5 Dev Conf, October 2012
Media and Video in the HTML5 Age, OSCON, July 2012
Scalable HTML5 Video Player, LinuxConf, Washington, April 2012
The Ins and outs of the Kaltura HTML5 Video Library, Kaltura Devconnect, NYC, April 2012
HTML 5 Overview, Variety Entertainment Apps Expo, LA, Dec 2011
HTML5: The Big Picture, HTML5 Video Summit, LA, Nov 2011
Scalable HTML5 Player Skill Share, Open Video Conference (OVC ), NYC, September 2011
Unifying Video Delivery to Web, HTML5 and Mobile, Webinar, April, 2011
New Images of Culture, Renco
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- PSapphire: Composite Hypertext Document StructuresPoster in the Proceedings of the th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia Aug
- EAn Interview with Michael Dale, Lead Front End Architect, Kaltura, Inc.EContent JulA short interview with Michael Dale per day to day activities in the eContnet industry.
- SNavigating HTML5Streaming Media Magazine MarA look at key developments that shaped the HTML5 platform, as well as practical and technical resources to help you implement HTML5 Video
- POnline Video Using BitTorrent and HTML5 Applied to WikipediaPeertoPeer Computing PP IEEE Tenth International Conference on AugWikipedia started a project in order to enable users to add video and audio on their Wiki pages. The technical downside of this is that its bandwidth requirements will increase manifold. BitTorrent-based peer-to-peer technology from P2P-Next (a European research project) is explored to handle this bandwidth surge. We discuss the impact on the BitTorrent piece picker and outline our ''tribe'' protocol for seamless integration of P2P into the HTML5 video and audio elements. Ongoing work on libswift which uses UDP, an enhanced transport protocol and integrated NAT/Firewall puncturing, is also described.
- OSearching the Net for Differences of OpinionOnline Deliberation DIAC MayOur goal is to identify a set of computable, search heuristics that might be employed in a “Daily Not Me” technology for finding opposing, political viewpoints as expressed in the archives of online discussion groups.
- PSapphire: Composite Hypertext Document StructuresPoster in the Proceedings of the th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia Aug