Ali Vardar
Co-Founder at PikoTV
Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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Top SchoolAli Vardar is a veteran software and embedded systems engineer with 11+ years leading R&D and founding PikoTV, a company that built industry-adopted SD/HD/4K/8K encoders used by major broadcasters and launched Türkiye’s first 8K TV channel. He combines deep low-level expertise (C, Assembly, embedded Linux, PIC/ARM) with high-performance video streaming and server-side development (HEVC, SRT, NDI, Nginx), and has delivered production GPU-accelerated encoders and IPTV solutions for clients like beIN/Digiturk, Türksat and Turk Telekom. Comfortable across infrastructure, networking and application layers, he has also migrated complex platforms, built monitoring and security tools, and integrated radio and SCADA systems. An active open-source contributor, his public GitHub reflects a pragmatic, hands-on engineering style that spans legacy languages through modern Golang and Python. Based in Istanbul, he pairs entrepreneurial drive with a track record of turning ambitious broadcast demos into stable, mission-critical products.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Economics, 2.49, High School, Economics, 2.49 at Anadolu ÜniversitesiAssociate's Degree, Computer Programming, 7.82, Associate's Degree, Computer Programming, 7.82 at Maltepe Üniversitesi
English, German
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Github Skills (31)
golang10
transport9
llm9
llama9
mistral9
go9
ollama9
gemma9
syslog7
server7
low-latency7
srt6
multimedia5
live-streaming5
broadcasting4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alivardar/5651-pfsense
Dec 2014 - Dec 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 2 pushes in 5 years 1 month
alivardar/qsheff-manager
Dec 2014 - Dec 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 1 push in 5 years 1 month
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