Rico Zimmermann
Teamleiter at AKDB
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolRico Zimmermann is a Teamleiter and experienced project and research engineer specializing in file-based media production, metadata, file formats, archiving, QC and accessibility services. With over 8 years of professional experience and a long tenure at Institut für Rundfunktechnik, he led agile software development projects from conception to release and is a specialist in MXF and IMF standards. He combines hands-on coding in Java, C#, Python, C++ and XSLT with project leadership across national and international research collaborations and standardization work. Based in Munich, he now leads teams at AKDB, translating research prototypes and proof-of-concept implementations into production-ready products. Colleagues rely on him for turning complex broadcast requirements into practical, auditable solutions and for presenting technical work at conferences. His academic foundation in Medientechnologie underpins a pragmatic focus on interoperability and long-term media preservation.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom-Ingenieur, Medientechnologie, Diplom-Ingenieur, Medientechnologie at Technische Universität Ilmenau
German, English
Github Skills (13)
webvtt9
xml-schema9
xsd9
edifact8
vtt8
schematron8
subtitle8
convert7
xslt7
converter7
xml7
ietf7
schema1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
IRT-Open-Source/scf
May 2019 - Nov 2019
Subtitling Conversion Framework
Contributions:15 commits in 6 months
schematronxmlvttxml-schemawebvtt
SMPTE-TC/377-1-2017
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:6 issues in 1 day
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