Chris Wiggins
Chief Technology Officer at SaferCities
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolChris Wiggins is a Chief Technology Officer with 13 years of hands-on experience building CCTV, media streaming, and networked systems that bridge hardware, metadata, and cloud services for public safety. Based in Auckland, he leads SaferCities where he combines network engineering, CCTV fundamentals, and intuitive system design to deliver safer-city initiatives in collaboration with police and transportation agencies. Technically fluent across backend systems, he has contributed practical fixes and feature work to prominent open-source projects like Janus WebRTC, Mosca MQTT broker, and ONVIF node.js—improving streaming, message-broker resilience, and camera control. His background in systems engineering and formal training in computer systems engineering underpins a pragmatic approach to architecture that favors simple, testable solutions. Notably, he enjoys turning complex integration challenges (e.g., PTZ control, HLS edge cases, and RabbitMQ queue semantics) into reliable, maintainable products that serve communities.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (Hons), Computer Systems, Bachelor of Engineering (Hons), Computer Systems at The University of AucklandLevel 3 NCEA with Merit, Physics, Calculus, Electronics, CCNA, Level 3 NCEA with Merit, Physics, Calculus, Electronics, CCNA at Saint Kentigern College
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Github Skills (30)
javascript10
amqp10
mpeg2-ts10
testing10
mqtt10
c1110
onvif10
mqttnet10
rabbitmq10
c1710
nodejs10
nginx10
cprogramming-language10
streaming10
server-client9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
agsh/onvif
Jun 2015 - Aug 2021
ONVIF node.js implementation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 12 commits, 10 PRs in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on enhancing the ONVIF node.js implementation by adding encoder support and related functionalities. They implemented support for multiple-input encoder XML files and the corresponding test suite. Further improvements include implementing a connect timeout method and adding methods for controlling PTZ functionalities such as setting and going to a home position. The user also fixed parsing errors related to camera faults.
nvtipcameranode-jscamerajavascript
sergey-dryabzhinsky/nginx-rtmp-module
Apr 2016 - Mar 2017
NGINX-based Media Streaming Server
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 54 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on improving the HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) support within the Nginx-RTMP module. Their work included fixing issues related to single-track MPEG-TS streams, correctly populating audio headers, and generating the appropriate CRC for MPEG-TS packets. They also specifically addressed closed captioning support. The user's contributions seem focused on improving the stability and functionality of the media streaming server.
nginxrtmpstreaming-serverstreamingdocker
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