Dirk Farin
Company Owner at Dirk Farin - Algorithmic Research e.K.
Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolDirk Farin is an experienced engineer and founder with 12+ years building video, audio and imaging software, now running his own research and product company in Stuttgart. His background spans research roles and industry projects—from PhD and postdoc work on 3DTV to developing production-grade video-conferencing codecs and surveillance analysis—culminating in commercial products like ImageMeter and codec work for h.265, HEIF and AVIF. He combines deep algorithmic expertise with hands-on cross-platform development for desktop, Android and iOS, and has contributed to notable open-source projects such as adding HEIF support to the Krita digital painting app. Pragmatic and independent, he blends academic rigor with product delivery and a knack for integrating new C++ APIs and metadata handling into real-world systems.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Science (German Diplom), Computer Science, Master of Computer Science (German Diplom), Computer Science at University Stuttgart, GermanyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Electrical Engineering at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
German, English, French
Github Skills (6)
c-language10
heif10
cprogramming-language10
image-processing10
k10
qt7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
KDE/krita
May 2018 - Jun 2018
Krita is a free and open source cross-platform application that offers an end-to-end solution for creating digital art files from scratch built on the KDE and Qt frameworks.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 21 days
Contributions summary:Dirk primarily focused on implementing HEIF image format support within the Krita application. Their work included creating a HEIF image loader and exporter, which involved integrating the libheif library. The user also adapted the code to utilize the new C++ API of libheif, improved error handling, and incorporated the reading and saving of Exif and XMP metadata. The primary focus of the commits was adding file format support for the Krita application.
artend-to-enddigital-artlinuxgui
farindk/libvideogfx
Jan 2014 - Mar 2021
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 7 years 3 months
visionrapid-developmentcomputer-graphicscomputer-visionrapid
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