Felix Kühne
Funktionsoberarzt at Self-Employed
Greater Munich Metropolitan Area Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolFelix Kühne is a medic and cardiology-focused intensivist with 22 years of clinical experience who uniquely pairs frontline emergency and ICU care with deep expertise in multimedia software for Apple platforms. As a long-time lead developer and packager for VideoLAN, he has driven major VLC rewrites and platform ports (macOS, iOS, tvOS), contributing low-level fixes and features such as video recording and playback robustness. Currently a Funktionsoberarzt at Universitätsklinikum Augsburg preparing a certified Chest Pain Unit and pursuing interventional cardiology training, he balances high-stakes patient care with ongoing commercial and open-source consultancy across Fortune 500 and startup clients. His rare combination of hands-on critical care experience and decades of VLC/Apple multimedia development enables pragmatic engineering that understands real-world constraints in both hospital and product environments.
22 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Health Business Administration, Master of Health Business Administration at FAU Erlangen-NürnbergStaatsexamen, Medicine, Staatsexamen, Medicine at The University of Göttingen
German, English, French, French
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Github Skills (16)
c1710
objective-c10
ios10
tvos10
c1110
multimedia9
api8
apim8
bitcode8
lua6
libvlc6
rtsp6
video-streaming6
vlc6
armv76
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
videolan/vlckit
Jun 2016 - Jan 2023
libvlc bindings for OS X, iOS and tvOS in Objective-C, official mirror
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:353 commits, 6 PRs, 59 comments in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Felix primarily contributed to the iOS-specific VLCKit library. Their work focused on enhancing and maintaining the media player and related components within the framework. Key contributions include fixes related to video playback, such as screen cropping, as well as improvements to delegate implementations. They also added new features, like a method for recording video, improving the functionality of the framework.
objective-cpicture-in-picturelibvlcappletvtvos
videolan/vlc
Nov 2004 - Sep 2022
VLC media player - All pull requests are ignored, please use MRs on https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:482 commits, 29 PRs, 25 comments in 18 years
Contributions summary:Felix focused on fixing compilation issues, which included patching code to ensure compatibility with different SDK versions and addressing build problems for specific architectures, particularly on iOS and tvOS platforms. They also worked on addressing bugs related to incorrect display of metadata and incorrect state on menu. The changes involved adapting to core API changes and refactoring code for better modularity and maintainability.
gplv2libvlcfollowframeworkvlc
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