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 (197)
rtsp10
drm10
video-encoding10
nexe10
shinobi10
bug-reporting10
hevc10
libfdk-aac10
streaming10
javascript10
bull10
priority-queue10
matroska10
audio10
plastic10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
dalet-oss/FFmpeg
Nov 2020 - Mar 2025
Mirror of git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
Contributions:12 pushes, 10 branches in 4 years 5 months
hacklanglibgit2videosource-gitffmpeg
flowscripter/template-deno-library
Feb 2021 - Dec 2022
Project template for a Deno library.
Contributions:1 release, 75 commits, 279 PRs in 1 year 10 months
typescriptdenodeno-librarytemplate
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