Kurt Kartaltepe
Database Engineer
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKurt Kartaltepe is a Database Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance, distributed systems and database solutions, currently based in San Jose and working at Google. He brings deep practical experience from roles as a DBA across utility and cloud companies and has a strong foundations in computer science and extensive mathematics coursework from UT Austin. Kurt contributes to open-source projects such as OBS Studio, where his low-level backend changes improved resource management and scripting extensibility, highlighting his comfort with systems-level code. He enjoys tackling hard technical problems across performance, distributed systems, and graphics, and he pairs that curiosity with mentoring experience from early Rackspace internships. An avid rhythm game fan and hobby mathematician, Kurt blends analytical rigor with a playful drive for pattern and optimization.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Computer Science, Bachelors of Science, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (9)
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c-language10
backend10
c1110
cprogramming-language10
back-end-development10
ffmpeg9
video-recording8
live-streaming8
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
obsproject/obs-studio
Jun 2016 - Jan 2023
OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:371 reviews, 110 commits, 170 PRs in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Kurt made several contributions to the `libobs` project, primarily focused on low-level system and backend modifications. They addressed a typo in the `obs-module.h` comments. Further, they implemented demuxer options by introducing a new custom_options, and also removed unimplemented exports. Also, They addressed resource management issues by removing multiple calls to `free_type_data`. Furthermore, the user added functionality related to scripting, including a new function `obs_source_enum_filters`, improving the overall usability of the backend code.
facebook-livec-plus-plusfree-and-open-source-softwaredirectshowgame-capture
kkartaltepe/obs-browser
Feb 2015 - Jan 2021
CEF Based obs-studio browser plugin
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
obsbrowserpluginobs-studiocef
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