Petros Kataras
Creative Technologist
Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolPetros Kataras is a Creative Technologist with 14 years of experience blending creative coding, multimedia systems and interactive installations from Austria. He builds production-ready back-end solutions for visual and audio experiences—contributing to the well-known Cinder C++ creative coding library by improving build processes and adding video double-buffering, GStreamer integration and seek support. His background spans research-driven practice at Ars Electronica Futurelab and client-focused innovation at Ars Electronica Solutions, and he now runs freelance projects that bridge art, architecture and computation. With an MSc in Adaptive Architecture & Computation and a BSc in Mathematics, he brings both formal analytical rigor and hands-on low-level systems expertise, often solving tricky platform and media-playback edge cases that many creatives avoid.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Mathematics, BSc, Mathematics at University of CreteMSc, Adaptive Architecture & Computation, MSc, Adaptive Architecture & Computation at University College London, U. of London
Github Skills (10)
videojs10
media-playback10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
video-player10
playback10
gstreamer10
build-system9
cmake9
opengl7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cinder/Cinder
Nov 2015 - Mar 2021
Cinder is a community-developed, free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding in C++.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:216 commits, 57 PRs, 137 comments in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Petros primarily contributed to improving the build process and implementing features related to video playback within the Cinder library. They addressed RPI2 build issues and introduced initial double buffering implementations, swapping video buffers to enable seamless playback. Further contributions included improvements to GStreamer integration and support for custom pipelines and seek functionality, demonstrating experience working with multimedia libraries and low-level system interactions.
professionalcppcinderqualitygraphics
PetrosKataras/Cinder-GstWebRTC
Sep 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:34 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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