Sylvain Rebaud
IOS Software Engineer at Plutinosoft LLC
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSylvain Rebaud is an iOS software engineer and seasoned technology leader with 14+ years of hands-on experience building consumer and embedded media products and leading engineering teams from startups to Apple in San Francisco. He founded Plutinosoft, authoring the Platinum UPnP/DLNA SDK used by projects like XBMC and licensed by companies including Plex and Toshiba, and shipped a top-ranked AirMusic app with over 700k downloads. His background spans low-level DSP/DRM work and cross-platform engine development, giving him deep expertise in media streaming, device integrations, and mobile client engineering. Comfortable partnering with executives on product strategy, he blends operational leadership with active coding—often diving into protocol bugs and backend fixes, as shown by his UPnP contributions.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
DEA, Acoustic, Computer Science & Music, DEA, Acoustic, Computer Science & Music at IRCAMMSEE, Digital Communications, Software Engineering, Digital Signal Processing, MSEE, Digital Communications, Software Engineering, Digital Signal Processing at Ecole supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Electrotechnique et Electronique
English, French
Github Skills (5)
http-protocol10
debug10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
networking10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
plutinosoft/Platinum
Nov 2011 - Mar 2021
UPnP SDK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 459 commits, 27 PRs in 9 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Sylvain primarily focused on debugging and implementing features related to the UPnP SDK, specifically addressing issues in HTTP request handling and subscription mechanisms. They fixed a bug related to retrying requests on new connections after server closures, ensuring correct functionality with requests including a body. Additionally, they made versioning updates and enhanced the event subscriber system, focusing on handling event notifications more efficiently.
upnpsdk
HelloClarice/ClariceNet
Feb 2014 - Nov 2015
Contributions:21 commits, 1 push in 1 year 9 months
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