Peter Hoddie is an engineer and entrepreneur focused on client software. He is recognized for crafting compact and efficient code that pushes the boundaries of user experience on consumer hardware. The software he and his teams have built has powered mass-market consumer products from companies including Apple, Palm, Sling, HP, and Sony. Peter recognizes that the first users of any product are the developers creating it, and that those developers cannot build compelling consumer products on a foundation that’s unstable, complex, or confusing. He therefore champions investments in great tools and a simple runtime architecture.
Peter has founded several companies, most recently Moddable Tech focused on opening all IoT products to apps using JavaScript and Kinoma, which merged into Marvell Semiconductor. He led QuickTime development at Apple during the 1990s as a distinguished engineer. He contributed to the development of the QuickTime file format and its adoption by ISO into the MPEG-4 standard. Peter is particularly proud of his work putting both the KinomaJS framework and Darwin Streaming Server into open source. He continues to come to terms with the 10 patents that bear his name.
