Paul Higgs
Steering Board Member at Metaverse Standards Forum
Reading, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Higgs is a seasoned systems architect and technology leader with over 20 years of experience designing and delivering telecom and media solutions, currently serving on the DVB Steering Board and leading DVB-I specification work. He blends deep hands-on engineering (from C/C++ and Java to WebRTC, CDN and cloud architectures) with strategic roles at Huawei and Ericsson, driving product strategy, standards leadership and patentable innovation. Known for building and mentoring multidisciplinary teams, he consistently aligns product development with industry standardization and customer needs, often translating research into deployable services. A long track record in industry bodies (DVB, Metaverse Standards Forum, VR Industry Forum, DLNA, OIPF) gives him rare visibility into interoperability and testing across broadcast, streaming and immersive media. He holds a BSc in Computer Science and Psychology and has a practical early-career background in real-time systems and VAX/VMS deployments that informs his systems-level thinking.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Hutt Valley High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science and Psychology, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science and Psychology at Victoria University of Wellington
Github Skills (122)
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matroska10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
MPEGGroup/DASHSchema
Mar 2019 - Jun 2021
The XML schema and example XML files for DASH (ISO/IEC 23009-1)
Contributions:1 review, 70 commits, 18 PRs in 2 years 3 months
schematronxml-filesdashieciso
paulhiggs/tsduck
Oct 2022 - Jun 2024
MPEG Transport Stream Toolkit
Contributions:8 PRs, 217 pushes, 31 branches in 1 year 8 months
streamingstreamvideotransportmpeg
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