Jens Schneider
Senior Video Coding Engineer R&D at MainConcept
Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJens Schneider is a Senior Video Coding Engineer with nine years of experience combining academic research and product-focused R&D in video and signal processing. He holds advanced degrees from RWTH Aachen and transitioned from a scientific role at RWTH's Institut für Nachrichtentechnik to industry positions, now driving codec development at MainConcept. Jens has hands-on expertise across the video toolchain, including improving cross-platform open-source tooling like the YUView YUV viewer where he streamlined build/install integration for package managers. Comfortable in both research and engineering contexts, he excels at turning complex compression research into production-ready implementations. Based in Aachen, he brings a pragmatic, systems-oriented mindset and a track record of improving developer experience and deployment reliability for multimedia applications.
10 years of coding experience
Doktor der Ingenieurwissenschaften, Doktor der Ingenieurwissenschaften at Institut für Nachrichtentechnik, RWTH Aachen UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Elektrotechnik, Informationstechnik und Technische Informatik, Master of Science - MS, Elektrotechnik, Informationstechnik und Technische Informatik at RWTH Aachen University
German, English
Github Skills (9)
yuv10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
qt10
video-player10
player10
hevc10
ffmpeg9
analyse9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
IENT/YUView
Aug 2016 - Jul 2017
The Free and Open Source Cross Platform YUV Viewer with an advanced analytics toolset
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 5 PRs, 6 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Jens focused on improving the build and installation process of the YUView application. They added install targets to the project file, enabling proper installation via package managers. Further, they updated the `.desktop` file to ensure correct application integration into the user's system. This includes fixing the project file to ensure install targets work correctly.
yuvvideoplayeranalysishevc
IENT/PTI
Nov 2020 - Nov 2025
Contributions:55 pushes, 23 branches in 5 years
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