Graeme Blackley
Senior Software Engineer at TVEyes
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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SeniorGraeme Blackley is a senior software engineer and solutions architect based in Wellington, New Zealand, with over 20 years in IT and 13 years of hands-on experience delivering broadcast, IPTV and embedded video systems. He currently designs and develops TVEyes’ television and radio capture and streaming software, and has led product-grade engineering at Hauppauge and bespoke consultancy work through his own firm, devnz.com. Known for pragmatic architecture and creative problem solving, he blends low-level systems work (C++/backend services) with modern streaming and integration challenges. An active contributor to the Kodi/XBMC PVR ecosystem, he implemented features like radio, timeshift and EDL support, showing deep understanding of media backends. Colleagues rely on him as a mentor and team lead who can move seamlessly between pre-sales, solution design and shipping robust, hardware-integrated software.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (11)
develop10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
kodi10
addon10
networking9
tcp-socket9
socket9
net9
http9
xml8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
opdenkamp/xbmc-pvr-addons
Oct 2012 - Jan 2015
Old XBMC PVR add-ons for Kodi up till Helix. Anything newer than Helix is built from the new location: https://github.com/kodi-pvr
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 7 PRs, 9 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Graeme primarily worked on enhancing the NextPVR PVR addon for Kodi. Their contributions focused on implementing new features like radio support, timeshift capabilities, and EDL support. They also addressed bugs, improved the handling of channel icons, and refined the interaction with the NextPVR backend. The user demonstrated a strong understanding of the PVR backend, including the API and integration with the XBMC framework.
add-onspvrxbmchelixlocation
LTNGlobal-opensource/vlc-3.0
May 2020 - Jun 2024
VLC tree with latest LTN patches for stable 3.0.10
Contributions:12 releases, 12 PRs, 15 pushes in 4 years 1 month
patchminecraftvmsvlcpatches
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