Nick Ryan
Principal Engineer at Hoot Works
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Ryan is a Principal Engineer with over 20 years’ experience building media technology from embedded systems to cloud-scale platforms, currently focused on cloud-native media processing using TypeScript, C/C++, Docker and Kubernetes. He founded and architected Nativ’s MioEverywhere media management and workflow platform—used by major broadcasters and studios—and led its acquisition by Ooyala/Telstra. Nick has deep, low-level expertise in multimedia tooling (ffmpeg, MediaInfo) and has designed horizontally scalable, near‑real‑time live video processing pipelines with SDKs for machine vision and media plugins. Active in standards and industry bodies (SMPTE observer, ISO‑MPEG contributor, AMWA, VSF) and co-editor of MPEG‑4 Part 34, he combines hands‑on systems engineering with protocol-level influence. Based in London, he brings a rare blend of research pedigree, published DSP work, and successful product entrepreneurship to complex media problems.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BEng Computer Systems Engineering, BEng Computer Systems Engineering at The University of Queensland
English, French
Github Skills (146)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
MPEGGroup/mpeg-sdl-editor
Jul 2025 - Jun 2026
ISO/IEC 14496-34 Syntactic Description Language (MPEG SDL) web based editor.
Contributions:4 releases, 54 PRs, 99 pushes in 11 months
heifisobmffmpegsdlsyntax
vectronic/freecad-legify-macros
Mar 2018 - Feb 2022
Macros to generate 'plastic toy brick' models in FreeCAD
Contributions:7 releases, 57 commits, 9 PRs in 3 years 11 months
freecadmacros
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