Simon Rogers
Chief Research Officer at Streampunk Media Ltd
Windsor, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Rogers is a senior technical leader and Chief Research Officer with over a decade of experience building high-performance broadcast and media systems that run in demanding 24/7 environments. He combines hands-on engineering—exemplified by optimizations to the widely used CasparCG Server’s video filtering and deinterlacing—with strategic R&D leadership from board-level roles at Quantel to product innovation at Streampunk Media. Comfortable translating business and customer needs into technical direction, he specialises in applying commodity infrastructure and rigorous computer science to democratise content production. A clear communicator with developers, executives and customers, he pairs deep systems knowledge from a Cambridge electrical sciences background with a proven track record of shipping robust, production-grade media software.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Electrical Sciences, BA, Electrical Sciences at University of CambridgeLancing College
English
Github Skills (9)
cpp10
ffmpeg10
video-player10
cplus10
broadcasting10
broadcast10
graphic9
video-streaming9
video-recording8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
CasparCG/server
Mar 2020 - Jan 2021
CasparCG Server is a Windows and Linux software used to play out professional graphics, audio and video to multiple outputs. It has been in 24/7 broadcast production since 2006. Ready-to-use downloads are available under the Releases tab https://casparcg.com.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 12 PRs, 21 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily focused on optimizing video filtering and deinterlacing within the CasparCG Server. Their contributions included improvements to the decklink producer, ensuring correct handling of interlaced input. They also introduced delays in the consumer to improve frame processing and fixed resampling issues within the ffmpeg producer. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving video processing efficiency and compatibility within the CasparCG Server's core functionality.
professionaloutputsc-plus-plusvideo-playervideo
Streampunk/redioactive
Apr 2020 - Apr 2022
Reactive streams for chaining overlapping promises.
Contributions:45 commits, 15 PRs, 38 pushes in 1 year 11 months
rxjsfunctional-reactive-programmingstreamsreactive-streamschaining
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