The team behind StreamShark
A brief history of StreamShark and how it came to be.
Trusted by the world's most demanding enterprises
A platform built by video delivery specialists
Our customers are AV operators running all-hands meetings for tens of thousands of employees, broadcast engineers delivering ticketed events, and IT teams who need every one of those streams to clear a security review first. Most use both halves of the platform: live streaming for the event itself, and VOD for everything that happens afterwards.
The core of the product is the thing we have worked on longest: reliability. Every live event runs across multiple CDNs with automatic failover and multiple ingest points, so one provider's bad day does not become your outage. That approach came out of the research the company was founded on, and it is still the reason customers move to an enterprise video platform like ours.
How we got here
StreamShark started in 2011 in Melbourne, as a spin-out of University of Melbourne research into Multi-CDN delivery: spreading one workload across several delivery networks so no single provider's outage could take it down. The first product, MetaCDN, accelerated websites and delivered video around the world.
Live video turned out to be the delivery problem customers cared most about. A slow website is an annoyance; a stream that drops during a keynote is a disaster. We launched StreamShark in September 2015 to work on that specific problem, and it became the business.
The people behind the platform
Austin Lay
Full Stack Software Engineer
Ethan Husband
Full Stack Software Engineer
Jeremy Parker
Site Reliability Engineer
Michael Panaccio
Director
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If you have an event you cannot afford to lose, we would rather hear about it early.
