Centricular
Expertise, Straight from the Source
Company
Mission
Free and Open Source Software runs in our veins, it is what we do. We believe in it as a methodology, yielding better technical outcomes in the long term, but also because it empowers individuals, companies and other organizations. It opens possibilities and creates an environment of mutually beneficial co-operation.
We also recognize, however, that like all software Free and Open Source Software is far from perfect. We strive to improve, deploy, support, work with and create new Free and Open Source Software by providing consulting services to other companies, organisations and individuals. To support you in using it, help you overcome obstacles, and assist with contributing to the community to close the circle.
Why us?
We are passionate about Free and Open Source Software. We care: we want our software to work well for you, and if that is not the case, we will take it personally and want to fix it. We are long-standing and well-connected members of the Free Software community and are active contributors outside of work as well. With us, you get a real expert every time, and you get to talk to them quickly and directly.
Having done professional Open Source consulting for many years, we know how to plan, execute and deliver projects of different scopes and how to work with companies of all sizes. We are also happy to consider urgent requests at short notice if needed.
Profiles
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Jan Schmidt
Graphics, Multimedia and Hardware Specialist · Director
Jan studied Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Newcastle Australia and has nearly 30 years experience in software development. He specialises in embedded and distributed software system design and implementation.
He is a GStreamer maintainer and primary author of DVD playback support, but has touched most areas of GStreamer at some point. In the past he worked for companies including Canon, Fluendo, Sun Microsystems and Oracle. Among other things, he has done research for new laser printer engines, implemented multimedia redirection for thin clients, written video and audio encoders and decoders and been a web developer.
He lives near Albury, Australia along with a menagerie and in his spare time builds 3D printers, robots and home automation systems.
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Sebastian Dröge
Multimedia and Cross-platform Development Specialist · Director
Sebastian is one of the core GStreamer developers. He has considerable experience with cross-platform development (Linux/Android/Windows/macOS/iOS), embedded systems, network protocols and services, media formats, codecs, signal processing and is fluent in many programming languages.
Sebastian has worked with many companies from large to small, doing everything from software development to designing software architectures and leading teams. He has a master's degree in computer sciences and is active in various Free Software communities outside GStreamer too.
He is based in Thessaloniki in Greece, originally coming from near Hanover in Germany.
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Tim-Philipp Müller
Multimedia, Embedded Linux and Integration Specialist · Director
Tim is a GStreamer core developer, maintainer and release manager. He has been developing free software for almost 25 years, and has extensive experience designing, developing, maintaining and integrating multimedia and application software solutions for phones, tablets, medical devices, cars, planes, TVs and set-top boxes, on Embedded Linux as well as on the desktop.
He also likes to play with distributed network protocols and applications. He holds an Honours degree from the University of York and a Master's degree from the University of Wales Aberystwyth. Tim has worked for Fluendo and Collabora and was a co-founder and director of Collabora Multimedia. He has been a GNOME contributor for almost ten years and a GNOME Foundation member for more than five years.
Tim is based in Bristol in the UK.
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Nirbheek Chauhan
Multimedia Hacker and Systems Generalist
Nirbheek has been contributing to FOSS projects such as Gentoo, GNOME, and Freedesktop since 2007 and has a wide breadth of knowledge about the Linux ecosystem. He has worked with all levels of the software stack ranging from the kernel (btrfs, cgroups), low-level userspace (systemd), middleware (GLib, libsoup, SQLite, etc), and build systems (Autotools, Meson), to multimedia (GStreamer), graphics (GTK+, Qt), and more.
Nirbheek also has moderate expertise in web technologies; HTML5, CSS, SVG, JavaScript, and on the server-side with Python-based frameworks.
Besides all this, he tries to pay close attention to design and simplicity, which he believes are critical to good engineering. Nirbheek has worked for Collabora in the past, was a Gentoo developer for five years, has been a GNOME contributor since 2006, and a GNOME Foundation member since 2011.
Nirbheek mostly lives in Bangalore, India.
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Edward Hervey
Multimedia and Systems Architect
Edward is a core GStreamer developer, specializing in fields including editing, broadcasting, and core components. He has been contributing to Free Software for almost 15 years, starting with the Pitivi video editing project and then branching out to many peripheral projects.
With his extensive knowledge of multimedia and network technologies, Edward thrives in helping companies make the best out of Free Software. He does that by helping design and/or review large and small architectures, provide training on key technologies, or develop and improve software components.
He has worked for several companies in the past, including Fluendo and Collabora. Edward was a director and co-founder of Collabora Multimedia. When he is not tackling the slopes across the Alps, attending music festivals or playing the bass in a band, Edward lives in Montpellier, France.
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Matthew Waters
Multimedia and Graphics Developer
Matthew Waters studied Computer Science at the University of New England and has considerable experience designing, developing and testing network protocols, embedded devices, media formats, and accelerated 3D graphics across a multitude of platforms.
He is a GStreamer maintainer and has worked extensively on OpenGL, Vulkan and integration with numerous decoding, encoding, and rendering libraries, and applications. He also has experience developing and testing WebRTC solutions.
Matthew lives in Newcastle, Australia
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Mathieu Duponchelle
Multimedia hacker and general purpose programmer
Mathieu is a developer specializing in multimedia. He has contributed to many GStreamer components, and helps maintain the pitivi video editor and GStreamer Editing Services (GES) library. He studied Computer Science at Epitech, where he obtained a Master degree.
He worked for Collabora in the past, where he gained experience designing and improving GStreamer-based multimedia solutions, such as a broadcasting tool with live editing capabilities, or a GStreamer adapter for the GENIVI automotive framework.
He has co-designed the base class for N-to-1 elements in GStreamer, GstAggregator, and as such has a great deal of experience with video compositing and audio mixing in GStreamer.
He lives in France, where he likes flying drones, trying to play football without making a fool of himself, and developing a markdown-based documentation system, hotdoc.
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Seungha Yang
Multimedia hacker and a big fan of Windows OS
Seungha Yang majored in Electrical and Computer Engineering during his bachelor and master courses at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) in South Korea, receiving his master’s degree in early 2015.
He has industrial experience in GStreamer-based media playback - from embedded devices to large-scale server-side streaming services, and including transcoding for streaming protocols such as MPEG-DASH, HLS, and RTMP. He has previously worked for LG and Navercorp.
Seungha has been contributing to various area of GStreamer since 2016. He initiated and has been the primary contributor to the Direct3D 11 and DXVA implementation on GStreamer for Windows. His interests also include various hardware codec implementations such as the Nvidia codec (a.k.a NVCODEC) and Intel Media SDK. His hobby is finding new and interesting challenges to hack on in GStreamer
Seungha lives near Seoul in South Korea.
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Jordan Petridis
QA and Multimedia Engineer
Jordan is a QA and Multimedia engineer at Centricular, part of the GNOME release team and can't stop talking about Rust and Flatpak.
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François Laignel
Multimedia Oxidizer
François spent 20 years developing and managing development teams for projects ranging from smartcard interfaces to country-scale government systems. In 2017, he decided to invest his time in open source software and started contributing to the Rust ecosystem, in particular to the GStreamer Rust bindings, which he now uses to develop multimedia related applications.
François lives near Nantes, in France, where he enjoys playing guitar and taking walks in the Loire river surroundings.
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Amy
Upstreamer and Compiler Breaker
Amy is a software engineer coming from Argentina. At Centricular, Amy helps develop and maintain the Meson ports of various multimedia libraries as well as Cerbero and GStreamer.
They started contributing to open source in 2016 as part of their BSc final project. Amy holds a MSc (Hons) in Computer Science (Computer Graphics) from the Universidad Nacional del Sur in Bahía Blanca, Argentina, and has been a two-time participant in Google Summer of Code. Amy's interests intersect color theory, realtime and offline graphics, codecs and SIMD. However, they've become too good at breaking compilers by just looking. Amy lives with their family and two dogs in Southern Argentina.
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Piotr Brzeziński
Multimedia hacker and bug hunter
Piotr specializes in multimedia development on Apple platforms. His involvement in GStreamer started through Google Summer of Code, where he worked on music-oriented editing capabilities for the Pitivi video editor. Since then, he's been working on improving GStreamer's macOS and iOS support, improving video encoding, decoding, and screen capture elements.
He lives in Warsaw, Poland, where he obtained his degree in Computer Science at the Warsaw University of Technology. In his free time, he likes playing rhythm games, which is what first brought him into the world of open-source contributions. Aside from multimedia, he has experience with web development on both frontend and backend, using technologies like React, Angular, Spring and .NET.
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