Peter Santangeli

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Peter was the Vice President of Engineering at Macromedia, Peter led the engineering teams for Macromedia’s Flash Media Server product and Macromedia’s Breeze web conferencing solutions. Prior to that, Peter managed the engineering efforts for Flash 4, Flash 5, and Flash MX. Peter spearheaded several successful acquisitions for Macromedia, jump-starting the companies mobile business, and later its entry into the enterprise space with Breeze. He was also Macromedia’s representative on the W3C Scalable Vector Graphics committee.

Prior to joining Macromedia, Peter spent 10 years in the 3D graphics industry, primarily at Alias Research where he was a Director of Engineering on PowerAnimator and Maya 3D modeling, animation, and visual effects suite. Notably, Peter was instrumental in leading Alias Research into the then-new area of authoring tools and runtimes for 3D games.

Peter started programming as a job at the age of 15, writing everything from banking systems to embedded software for industrial computer vision systems. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Cognitive Science from The University of Toronto.