Peter Bubestinger-Steindl studied Media Computer Science at the Technical University in Vienna.
He has worked as a project leader and developer in the field of digital archives since 2002.
As employee of NOA, he set up and developed solutions for both television and radio archives and service-providers (ORF, RTV-Slovenia, Memnon, YLE, etc). From 2010 to 2015, he managed the video digitization development at the Österreichische Mediathek (Austria's national A/V archive) and was instrumental in discovering and improving the lossless video codec FFV1 for long-term preservation.
In recent years he has specialized in coordinating and deploying paid Open Source solutions for high-quality, demanding use cases and has been invited as a trainer, speaker and lecturer by memory institutions, universities and companies around the globe.
In 2015 he founded the company "AV-RD" which offers services and development around professional Open Source use in the archival sector.