Rufael Mekuria
Principal Engineer at Huawei
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRufael Mekuria is a Principal Engineer and research-minded standards leader with 11+ years building immersive media, point-cloud codecs, and large-scale streaming systems from R&D through industry-wide standardisation. He led the creation of MPEG’s first point cloud codec and quality metrics, drove a 20+ company Call for Proposals, and co-founded MPEG groups on 5G media delivery that include Samsung, Huawei, Nokia and others. At Unified Streaming he bridged cutting-edge research and production platforms, while his live ingest spec reached IETF draft status and engaged cloud and CDN leaders like AWS and Akamai. A published PhD researcher and award-winning conference author, he combines deep C++ multimedia engineering with hands-on work in distributed systems, edge/cloud media processing and standards negotiation. Based in Amsterdam, he now represents industry interests at Huawei and 3GPP while maintaining a track record of turning academic innovations into interoperable products. An unusual strength is his ability to shepherd nascent codec and ingest specs from prototype anchors into broad multi-vendor adoption.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Vrije UniversiteitM.Sc Electrical Engineering Telecom Multimedia, M.Sc Electrical Engineering Telecom Multimedia at Delft University of Technology
French, German, English, Dutch
Github Skills (83)
drm10
playback10
vod10
mse10
video-player10
point-cloud10
pcl10
hbbtv10
player10
javascript9
ietf9
playing9
video-streaming9
computer-vision9
ply9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
RufaelDev/pcc-mp3dg
Feb 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:40 commits, 1 PR, 41 pushes in 2 years 9 months
pcc
unifiedstreaming/fmp4-ingest
Oct 2018 - Nov 2022
Repository on shared work on developing a fragmented MPEG-4 ingest specification
Contributions:152 commits, 11 PRs, 176 pushes in 4 years 1 month
fragmenteddevelopingspecificationmpegingest
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