Bengt Ove Sannes
Technical Designer and Software Engineer
Oslo, Norway
Bengt Ove Sannes

Selected projects

Naer
Mixed Reality Workshops on Quest

Developed groundbreaking MR/VR shared experience for Meta Quest, enhancing collaboration for hybrid teams. Debugged, optimized and wrote automated tests to ensure stability across all tech stacks. Spatial integration of Miro in complex, multi-user, real-time environments. Coordinated team during crunch time, successfully delivering features under tight constraints.

Meta Quest
Viewalk

Developed mobile app and tooling on Unreal Engine. Backend is built with Node.js and includes automated testing and full CICD pipeline. Modern UI built with Vue. The platform's distribution system allows for rapid iterations of games, without relying on updates through AppStore. UE programming utilizes both C++ and Blueprints for an optimal blend of runtime performance and development time. Multiplayer servers are orchestrated on Kubernetes.

Conformist
Cuts transfer times and storage costs in post-production

Desktop app for reducing data amounts after editing from terabytes to gigabytes. Developed in Swift for MacOS.

HF Delivery
Slick and easy post-production review and distribution platform. New uploads are instantly playable, with lossless processing.

The initial version of HF Delivery was built in 2007, when video on the web was still difficult. The latest iteration is optimized to handle a mix of formats - from 2:35 to vertical 9:16 and beyond, as is required for most commercial work today.

HF Live
Sub-second high quality streaming

Allows realtime collaboration in post-production over the internet. Much higher quality than regular video conferencing platforms. Used for everything from offline editing to color grading, vfx and detailed graphics work.

Open source contributions

Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax.
LVGL is a free, full-featured embedded UI library for devices from small MCUs to 3D-capable MPUs, enhanced by LVGL Pro, a professional editor and tooling.
Dropzone is an easy to use drag'n'drop library. It supports image previews and shows nice progress bars.
React Native Cross-Platform WebView
Blender glTF 2.0 importer and exporter
Vue plugin for Matomo Analytics
FFmpeg customized for broadcast and professional usage
VueJS wrapper for the great Split.js library.
Native plugin to use ReplayKit with Unity.