Jen Wohlner

Jen Wohlner leads product management at Livepeer, a decentralized video transcoding and live-streaming platform built on the Ethereum blockchain. Before Livepeer, Jen was the product manager for platform engineering at Fastly, an edge cloud platform that provides a content delivery network, Internet security products, load balancing, and video and streaming services for major companies across the globe. Previously, Jen worked as a senior technical program manager for site reliability engineering at LinkedIn where she had a special focus on resiliency projects across LinkedIn’s stack and at BuzzFeed where she led the software infrastructure and tools infrastructure groups and launched BuzzFeed’s early video products. From 2006 to 2010, Jen attended the University of Southern California as a Point scholar where she earned a BFA in fine arts with emphases in sculpture, video and interactivity. She also received USC’s trustee scholarship, a full academic scholarship. After graduating, Jen served on the Point Foundation Los Angeles Board of Trustees from 2013 to 2015. Jen Wohlner currently resides in St. Louis, Missouri. In her spare time, she runs marathons, cooks feasts for her wife, draws, and goes on walks with her two dogs, Mrs. Peanut Butter and Green Bean.