Matthias Straka
Senior Software Engineer at DEWETRON GMBH
Graz, Styria, Austria
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Top SchoolMatthias Straka is a Senior Software Engineer based in Graz, Austria, with a PhD in computer vision and over six years of professional experience building high-performance C++ systems for imaging and sensor data. He blends academic rigor from his doctoral work on human pose and shape estimation with practical experience in aerial geodata processing, signal processing, and embedded/desktop software at companies like Dewetron and Holistic Imaging. Matthias focuses on extracting rich information from camera and sensor streams and optimizing large-scale data pipelines for efficiency and maintainability. An active contributor to open-source projects, he has improved database performance and SQL handling in the Gerbera UPnP media server, revealing a knack for pragmatic refactoring. He also prototypes in Python and builds web projects on the side, reflecting a versatile toolset beyond his core C++ expertise. Colleagues value him for turning complex sensor-driven concepts into robust, production-ready software.
5 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at HTBLA KaindorfBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Technische Universität Graz
English, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (18)
c-language10
sql10
cprogramming-language10
database-optimization10
fmt9
database-design9
cpp8
refactoring8
database8
sql-database8
relational-databases8
cplus8
cmake8
databases8
influxdb6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gerbera/gerbera
Aug 2021 - Oct 2021
UPnP Media Server for 2025: Stream your digital media through your home network and consume it on all kinds of UPnP supporting devices 📱💻📺
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:32 reviews, 52 commits, 21 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Matthias primarily focused on refactoring and optimizing the SQL database component of the Gerbera project. They implemented performance enhancements by preallocating vectors, removing redundant queries, and adding integer conversion helpers to SQLRow. Additionally, the user converted SQL format strings to use identifier objects and made further simplifications to fmt::format calls. The changes aimed to improve the efficiency and maintainability of database interactions within the media server.
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matthiasstraka/gerbera
Aug 2021 - May 2023
UPnP Media Server for 2021: Stream your digital media through your home network and consume it on all kinds of UPnP supporting devices 📱💻📺
Contributions:4 PRs, 106 pushes, 42 branches in 1 year 9 months
ipcamerahome-networkstreamingstreaming-videobroadcast
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