Søren Juul
Senior Software Engineer at Uber
Galten, Central Denmark Region, Denmark
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Top SchoolSøren Juul is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building embedded Linux and media-streaming systems, currently at Uber after a long tenure at Roku where he worked on C++ for wireless audio and CEC extensions. He holds an MSc in Software Engineering from Aalborg University and has deep low-level expertise in Go, C++ and Linux-based development for resource-constrained devices. Søren has contributed to the well-known open-source Kodi project, improving video playback and refactoring hardware-specific OpenMax decoders—evidence of practical codec and media pipeline experience. His background spans full product lifecycles from PHP/MySQL web systems and Android apps to embedded firmware, including work at a startup acquired by Roku. Colleagues know him for methodical regression fixes, maintaining backward compatibility while modernizing legacy code, and pragmatic build/system fixes that keep complex projects compiling. Based in Central Denmark, he pairs academic rigour with hands-on production engineering across both consumer devices and large-scale platform environments.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Skive Tekniske SkoleBachelor of Science (BS), Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Software Engineering at Aalborg Universitet
English, Danish
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Github Skills (10)
multimedia10
cpp10
kodi10
cplus10
decoding10
android9
linux9
xml6
excel6
vba6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
xbmc/xbmc
Oct 2015 - Apr 2016
Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, it's available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS, tvOS and Windows.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 10 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Søren primarily focused on improving the Kodi media center's video playback functionalities. Their contributions included fixing regressions, correcting compile errors, and refactoring hardware-specific video rendering components, specifically for OpenMax-based decoders. They also updated existing code to align with the project's evolving architecture, renaming and removing outdated components. Finally, they added necessary headers to enable correct compilation.
pythonentertainmentc-plus-plusiosmultimedia
zpon/binaryvisualizerjs
Mar 2017 - Aug 2020
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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