Founding Story
Kourosh Soroushian, Founder and Chief Engineer
HLSAnalyzer.com began as a passion project for Kourosh Soroushian, the founder and software developer behind the service. The inspiration for HLSAnalyzer.com came from Kourosh’s personal experience as a principal engineer on a live transcoding project. During this project, he faced challenges in finding a cost-effective and stable solution suitable for monitoring a small number of live HLS streams. Most existing monitoring services cater to large customer bases with hundreds of streams and often lack the detailed logging information necessary to resolve real networking issues. This gap led Kourosh to create a solution that addresses these shortcomings.
Kourosh is a seasoned software architect and engineer with over 20 years of experience in video compression and cloud media delivery. His expertise spans embedded software architecture and design, video CODEC design and development, cloud transcoding, and intellectual property development. He has also served as a faculty member at the University of California, San Diego Extension program, where he taught digital video compression.
Kourosh holds over eighty issued U.S. patents in adaptive streaming, content multiplexing, video compression, and related technologies, with over 3000 citations on Google Scholar. His consulting company is Task One, LLC.