Charles Rentmeesters

Charles Rentmeesters has worked in the technology industry since 1994. Charles began their career as Lead Software Engineer at Boss International, where they managed a team of 2 to 3 developers and worked on an AutoCAD extension that did HEC-2 and HEC-RAS river water analysis. In 1997, they became a Software Engineering Contractor at Arachnid, where they worked on Black Widow multi-player dart machine, Jukebox systems, and Blackjack machines. Charles also worked as a Software Engineering Contractor at Martin Automatic, Inc, where they designed control system to control large factory machinery. From 1998 to 2006, they worked as a Software Engineer at Sonic Foundry, where they lead software engineer on the Siren Music Jukebox software and worked on various components of the Vegas Video Editor. From 2008 to 2017, they worked as Senior Staff Software Engineer at Sony Creative Software, where they worked on the Vegas video editing software and Catalyst products and supported other programmers with OFX video plug-ins. From 2017 to 2021, they worked as Senior Staff Engineer at HBO, where they worked on a variety of projects including offline video downloads, seamless playback transitions, CDN management and choices, and multi-language playback. Since 2010, they have served as a Board Member, Website Design, and Stage Manager at Kanopy Dance Company.

Charles Rentmeesters attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1989 to 1994, where they earned a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).