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G'Day! I'm Hendo

Nathan Henderson

Software Engineer at University of Wollongong

I am a passionate software developer with 4 years of working experience. I love all things tech, whether that is gaming, servers or even fixing broken hardware - I am always looking to work on something engaging. I am big on movies and music; Searching for ways to merge my passions with my career path has led me to work on some pretty cool projects from teaching myself HLS streaming/downloading when I started learning to code in Python to build a custom Rooster Teeth downloader, or the smart lossless video encoder service I am working on now through GO and FFMPEG.

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Experiences

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University of Wollongong (AHOC)

Apr 2022 - Present

Wollongong

AHOC is a health institute within the Univeristy that collaborates with Government and Health Clinics from around the country to improve overall health outcomes.

Analyst Programmer

Apr 2022 - Present

Responsibilities:
  • Design and develop new features on a suite of ASP.NET data-entry applications, as well as our WinForms applications that are deployed all around the country.
  • Created an internal Signout Board hosted on our Confluence Cloud instance, built on the MERN stack. React client using FullCalendar, Express.JS API and MongoDB instance hosted on our IIS server.
  • Liase with Data Analysts and Health Clinicians to design practical technical solutions to meet desired outcomes.

Skills

Education

University of Wollongong
2019-2024
Bachelor of Computer Science (Cyber Security)
Extracurricular Activities:
  • Came 1st place in our 2022 Mini Trade-Show with ‘CryptDetect’, an ASP.NET application that performs an analysis on publically available repositories to determine potential cryptographic algorithms that are used.
  • Expanded on C++ knowledge to build some small homebrew apps for retro consoles using toolkis such as PS2DEV and RXDK
TAFE NSW (Petersham)
2018-2018
Diploma of Software Development
Extracurricular Activities:
  • Created a customised fork of a UWP port of RetroArch for the Xbox that added a custom protocol to allow commands to be passed through on launch.
  • Developed a UWP application ‘forwarder’ intended for Xbox One consoles in ‘Dev Mode’ that launched a specific emulator with a specific game via the custom RetroArch fork.
  • Created a Windows utility to generate these forwarders with generative metdata and a thumbnail generator, including a built-in image editor that pulled cover art from 3rd party sites based on the ROM name.
TAFE NSW (St. George)
2017-2018
Certificate IV in Programming
Extracurricular Activities:
  • Reverse engineered MyMaccas API to build an Android App in Java that allowed multiple accounts to login in order to display a complete list of offers available.
Engadine High School
2011-2016
Higher School Certificate
Extracurricular Activities:
  • Self-taught Python, HLS Streaming, Account Authentication and file concatination through building a customised downloader for roosterteeth.com
  • Built a front-end for the VLC library through tkinter that parsed file metadata and had realtime seeking.

Projects

SmartCut
SmartCut
Developer Janurary 2026 - Present

Smart lossless video cutter built on GO and FFMPEG.

hobby
Star
go-ffprobe
go-ffprobe
Contributor Janurary 2026

Added additional frame and sidedata structs to this wrapper

osc
Star
MVNFOEditor
MVNFOEditor
Developer Janurary 2024 - Present

Media Manager w/ built-in downloading for YouTube Music and Apple Music

hobby
Star
YTMusicNet
YTMusicNet
Developer May 2025 - Nov 2025

.NET Port of ytmusicapi, a Python library that handles connections to YouTube Music

hobby
Star
ErsatzTV
ErsatzTV
Contributor Aug 2024 - Present

Implementing new ‘filler’ media type, including metadata and smart schedule building

osc
Star

Featured Posts

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Journey for the (almost) lossless video cutting software

Ever since I first discovered ErsatzTV, the FOSS that allows you to host your own IPTV network, I’d become fascinated with building up a collection commercials, or ‘filler’ as Ersatz calls them, to play in-between content. To begin with I looked for Blu-Rays and DVDs I owned that contained TV Spots as special features (some didnt even advertise TV Spots and just called the 30 second spot a ’trailer’) but these are few and far between. Plus, you don’t want all of the ads to just be of movies so my attention then turned to YouTube. Most of these are 30+ minute long broadcast recordings so I began my search for ways to trim these down into individual files…

Friday, January 30, 2026 | 10 minutes Read
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How I got here

Hello, world! I’ve dabbled around a bit with blogs throughout my life but had never really built one of my own like this - given i’m at the start of professional career and there’s a lot of nieche knowledge I have, I thought this would be a great place to put it! As for what my first post would be, I thought I’d do a long post (or a series of shorter ones) introducing myself and detailing how I ended up in development to begin with. I love to ramble so I suspect these might be broken up but we’ll see!

Friday, January 30, 2026 | 12 minutes Read

Recent Posts

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Journey for the (almost) lossless video cutting software

Ever since I first discovered ErsatzTV, the FOSS that allows you to host your own IPTV network, I’d become fascinated with building up a collection commercials, or ‘filler’ as Ersatz calls them, to play in-between content. To begin with I looked for Blu-Rays and DVDs I owned that contained TV Spots as special features (some didnt even advertise TV Spots and just called the 30 second spot a ’trailer’) but these are few and far between. Plus, you don’t want all of the ads to just be of movies so my attention then turned to YouTube. Most of these are 30+ minute long broadcast recordings so I began my search for ways to trim these down into individual files…

Friday, January 30, 2026 | 10 minutes Read
Hero Image
How I got here

Hello, world! I’ve dabbled around a bit with blogs throughout my life but had never really built one of my own like this - given i’m at the start of professional career and there’s a lot of nieche knowledge I have, I thought this would be a great place to put it! As for what my first post would be, I thought I’d do a long post (or a series of shorter ones) introducing myself and detailing how I ended up in development to begin with. I love to ramble so I suspect these might be broken up but we’ll see!

Friday, January 30, 2026 | 12 minutes Read