Steve Heffernan

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States24 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Co-founder of Mux, leading video tech innovation.
Creator of Video.js, a pioneering open-source video player.
Expert in cloud video encoding with Zencoder.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a focus on video technology and user experience.

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About

Video technology enthusiast; developer product designer; open source and web standards contributor; startup founder. @heff

Experience

Mux

2 roles

Co-Founder

Jul 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 8 mos

Co-founder, Head of Product

Oct 2015 – Jul 2021 · 5 yrs 9 mos

Mux helps software developers build better video applications, through our video hosting & streaming API and our Quality of Experience analytics. We have big plans for improving how the world watches video, and we have the best team in video tech. mux.com/team
Mux is backed by Y-Combinator, A16Z, Accel, founders of Stripe, Heroku, Parse, and other top-tier investors.

Brightcove

Director of Open Player Tech

Aug 2012 – Oct 2015 · 3 yrs 2 mos

After the Zencoder acquisition I was put full-time on the Video.js project, to expand the community and lead the development of professional video features.

Video.js

Creator, Maintainer

May 2010 – Present · 15 yrs 10 mos · San Francisco, CA

Started the project in 2010 (alongside Zencoder) as the first open source HTML5 video player. Grew the community to hundreds of contributors, millions of websites (incl. Twitter, Amazon, Microsoft) and billions of end-users every month.
Handed off the role of lead-maintainer in October 2015, but continuing to contribute as time allows.

Zencoder

Founder, Head of Product Design & Marketing

Jan 2010 – Aug 2012 · 2 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco, CA

Y-Combinator W'10 alum. Helped grow the business to be the leader in cloud video encoding/transcoding, with thousands of paying customers and many millions of monthly video transcodes.
Zencoder was acquired by Brightcove in August of 2012 where it continues to grow and lead the market even among new larger company competitors.

Sevenwire

Owner/Partner

Apr 2008 – Jan 2010 · 1 yr 9 mos · Los Angeles, CA

Built full web applications for various clients, using Ruby on Rails and JavaScript. Contracts ranged between $50k-250k.
Partnered with On2 Technologies to build Flix Cloud – a cloud-based video encoding/transcoding service built on On2's Flix Engine software. On2 was later acquired by Google and the product was discontinued, making room for Zencoder.

Azusa pacific university

Webmaster / Internet Marketing Manager

Aug 2003 – Apr 2008 · 4 yrs 8 mos

Managed a 19,000 page website with 1.8 million pageviews per month, and 4 full-time staff
Redesigned the homepage and all site templates; converted site from table-based to standards-based HTML/CSS
Developed web content and advertising strategies through market research and statistical analysis; used both Omniture and Google Analytics. Optimized the website for search engines; used Bruce Clay Inc.'s SEO ToolSet.
Built the site's first video platform for student success stories, including a custom CMS and flash-based video player.

Independent Web Contractor

May 2001 – Aug 2005 · 4 yrs 3 mos

Contracted by diverse clients to create original creative design, produce Flash-based interfaces, and implement e-commerce solutions.
Clients: G9 interactive, VisitorPak, EyeMax Interactive, Smart City Grinds, Friends Center, Evangelical Friends Church, True Point Ministries, Pomona First Baptist, Any Old Joe, Doubting Thomas Ministries.