Stephan Raue
System Und Anwendungsbetreuer at Arvato Systems
Recklinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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RockstarStephan Raue is an experienced systems and application support engineer with 16 years in IT, currently working at Arvato Systems and long-time maintainer of the OpenELEC embedded multimedia OS. He combines hands-on kernel and driver development—contributing to famous projects like CoreELEC and Kodi—with deep system-level skills in cross-compilation, package and release management. His background spans enterprise support at Sophos and the Swiss National Bank to embedded hardware bring-up and production support, giving him rare end-to-end expertise from kernel patches to user-facing media features. Stephan is comfortable collaborating with upstream projects and hardware vendors, and has a track record of shipping pragmatic fixes for multimedia hardware, remote controls and codec issues. Based in Recklinghausen, Germany, he pairs steady operational discipline with open-source community leadership cultivated over more than a decade.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (27)
dependency-management10
git10
c-language10
dvb10
c1110
linux-kernel10
kodi10
c1710
kernel10
driver10
version-control10
software-packaging10
cprogramming-language10
stereo10
build-system9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
OpenELEC/OpenELEC.tv
Jun 2010 - Jun 2017
OpenELEC - The living room PC for everyone
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Systems Engineer
Back-end Developer & Systems EngineerContributions:19381 commits, 391 PRs, 892 pushes in 7 years
Contributions summary:The user, Stephan Raue, primarily focused on maintaining and updating the existing codebase within the OpenELEC TV project. His contributions involved updating various software packages and dependencies, indicating a strong focus on system maintenance and ensuring compatibility with the existing architecture. His work involved incorporating patches, fixing build issues, and merging updates for a wide array of libraries and tools. Additionally, he contributed towards adding support for features related to handling kernel-level components, suggesting a degree of system-level expertise.
vmsliving-roomxbmclinuxroom
CoreELEC/CoreELEC
Jun 2010 - Sep 2016
A lightweight OS for KODI
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1021 commits in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Stephan primarily contributed to the kernel source code by updating drivers and configurations for DVB-C/T/T2/S/S2 and multimedia hardware support. This involved adding and updating patches to enable functionalities such as support for different hardware devices including new video cards and remote controls. Furthermore, the user made several patches to include support for multiple channels, display settings and other general improvements to the drivers and media related functionalities.
linuxkodi
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