Christopher Olekas
Senior Software Engineer at IMAX Streaming and Consumer Technology
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Olekas is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience specializing in video and embedded systems, from low-level register programming to system-level API design. He has led hardware integration and codec efforts—bringing SDI/HDMI monitoring, HLS streaming, and loudness QC (EBU R128, ITU-T BS.1770) into production—while maintaining and extending libav/FFmpeg within commercial platforms. Comfortable working solo or collaboratively, he blends deep practical knowledge of MPEG, H.264, real-time OSes (vxWorks), and architectures like MIPS24k/SPARC V8 with a strong testing and customer-focused debugging practice. Past roles include leading codec teams, porting CPU encoder proofs to Linux/Cisco hardware, and on-site troubleshooting that translated directly into product wins for customers. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, he pairs an engineering degree from the University of Waterloo with a knack for training peers and turning complex multimedia standards into robust, deployable solutions. An unusual strength is his breadth across both firmware-level drivers and high-level streaming architectures, allowing him to bridge hardware-software gaps effectively.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, Lithuanian, French
Github Skills (34)
parser8
decoder8
encoder7
encoder-decoder7
closed7
stream7
pls7
credentials6
hls-stream6
python6
streaming5
m3u5
aws5
idp5
linux5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ssimwave/ffmpeg
Aug 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:50 reviews, 14 PRs, 38 pushes in 4 years 6 months
nathanworms/libcaption
Nov 2018 - Jan 2021
Free open-source CEA608 / CEA708 closed-caption encoder/decoder
Contributions:2 reviews, 2 PRs, 6 branches in 2 years 2 months
captioncloseddecoderencoderencoder-decoder
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