Norbert Federa
CTO, OWNR at Thincast Technologies GmbH
Austria
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Norbert Federa is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 14+ years of hands-on experience building and leading software companies from Austria. He has steered product and engineering strategy at Thincast Technologies (OWNR) since 2008, following earlier CTO/GM roles at Neoware Austria and eSeSIX, blending executive leadership with deep technical ownership. Trained in computer science and grounded in mathematics and physics, he brings rigorous problem-solving to systems and protocol engineering. As an open-source contributor he’s improved FreeRDP’s core—fixing X11 client bugs, hardening RDP security, and optimizing RemoteFX performance—showing a focus on robustness and low-level multimedia codecs. Colleagues know him for pairing strategic vision with the ability to dive into critical bug fixes and performance tuning. Based in Austria, he prefers durable, protocol-level improvements that scale across diverse client deployments.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer science, Computer science at Vienna University of TechnologyMathematics, Physics, Mathematics, Physics at University of Innsbruck
Github Skills (8)
c1710
x1110
rdp10
c1110
rd10
security9
performance-optimization9
video-codec9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
FreeRDP/FreeRDP
Oct 2011 - Apr 2021
FreeRDP is a free remote desktop protocol library and clients
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 331 commits, 207 PRs in 9 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Norbert primarily worked on improving the FreeRDP codebase, focusing on enhancing its core functionality. Their contributions include fixing critical bugs related to the X11 client, such as issues with window handling, RemoteFX decoding, and clipboard interaction, and addressing security vulnerabilities in the RDP protocol, indicating a focus on protocol robustness and system stability. The user also added support for new features, such as adding the surface frame marker command and the ability to specify the RemoteFX mode, and improved the performance of the RemoteFX codec.
freerdpremote-desktopsdlrdpandroid
nfedera/FreeRDP
Apr 2015 - Apr 2021
FreeRDP is a free remote desktop protocol client
Contributions:13 commits, 96 pushes, 199 branches in 6 years 1 month
freerdpremote-desktoprdpremote-desktop-protocoldesktop
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