BraincoilArchitecture & engineering

Architect and builder

Software designed by someone who will also build it.

Braincoil designs software systems and then builds them. Founders, product teams, and companies working on streaming, media, device, and platform products get senior architecture and hands-on engineering from the same person: Pete Mountanos, with 25 years behind CNN’s first live webcasts, Microsoft Mediaroom, and Google Cast.

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What Braincoil does

Three kinds of work, one accountable engineer.

Plans that survive contact with the code, and code that follows a plan. Braincoil takes on work where the design decisions and the build need to stay in the same hands.

01

Architecture and technical direction

System design, technology choices, build-versus-buy calls, and a delivery plan a team can actually follow. Pete has owned large production systems end to end and knows which shortcuts get expensive later.

  • System and integration design
  • Technical reviews and risk assessment
  • Roadmaps and requirements
02

Hands-on development

Braincoil writes and ships the software: iOS apps, backends, APIs, and the infrastructure underneath them. The architecture does not get handed off as a diagram; it gets built.

  • iOS and web applications
  • Backend services and APIs
  • Deployment and operations
03

Streaming, media, and device platforms

Ingest, encoding, delivery, live and on-demand video, playback, and casting to the TV. Pete has worked in streaming since its first days and has led partner integrations across more than 100 million devices.

  • Live and VOD delivery pipelines
  • Device and casting integrations
  • Partner onboarding and QA

Track record

Built on 25 years of shipping media systems.

From the earliest live webcasts to platforms running on millions of TVs.

FirstProduced some of the first live streaming webcasts for CNN, including the Mars rover Sojourner landing and the Hong Kong handover.
80%Reduction in delivery costs as CTO of Nine Systems, by integrating acquired technology.
MediaroomPrincipal Software Architect at Microsoft, owning the Video on Demand and Live Over the Top systems.
100M+Active Google Cast devices protected as media technical lead for Google’s largest partners.
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Who is behind Braincoil

Pete Mountanos

Pete Mountanos started in streaming when it still sounded like a science project, deploying VXtreme video for CNN.com and building the first fully automated streaming ingest and encoding system in a broadcast environment. He went on to lead streaming at ImagineRadio and MTV Networks Online, and served as CTO and then COO of Nine Systems (formerly Streaming Media Corporation).

At Microsoft he was a Principal Software Architect on Mediaroom IPTV. At Google he spent nearly a decade as Staff Senior Solutions Consultant and Media Technical Lead for Chromecast and Google Home, where he was the primary technical liaison for Google’s largest media partners and managed a team of eight Technical Account Managers.

He holds four U.S. patents in content distribution and recording, and began his career as an Electronic Warfare Technician in the U.S. Navy. The habit from that first job still applies: keep working the problem until it yields.

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