Tarik Sekmen
Principal Engineer at Sky
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTarik Sekmen is a Principal Engineer with 15 years' experience designing and shipping system software for embedded Linux platforms, currently leading engineering efforts at Sky. He specialises in HAL and middleware development, IPTV and multimedia stacks, and has driven certifications and integrations for DRM, WebAudio, MSE/EME and 4K video on SoC platforms. His background spans hands-on open-source collaboration with SoC vendors and telecoms—from Yocto BSPs and custom compositors to secure firmware and remote update systems—bringing deep cross-vendor embedded domain knowledge. Tarik combines academic rigor (MScs in Natural Computation and Information Systems) with product-focused delivery, having consulted on medical and industrial devices and shepherded LGPL licensing for embedded projects. Notably, he has delivered platform ports and performance-sensitive graphics/video solutions (WebKit/DirectFB, OpenGL) that enabled consumer certifications like Netflix and YouTube on constrained hardware.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc. Computer Science (Robotics and Intelligent Machines), BSc. Computer Science (Robotics and Intelligent Machines) at University of EssexMSc. Information Systems, MSc. Information Systems at Hacettepe UniversityMSc. Natural Computation, MSc. Natural Computation at University of Birmingham
Github Skills (32)
gadget10
smartphone10
android-applications10
closed10
pebble10
liveview10
android-application10
directfb9
android9
typescript8
microsoft7
electron7
vscode-extension7
vscode7
editor7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ilixi/ilixi
Jun 2015 - Dec 2022
Contributions:4 releases, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 7 years 7 months
cpplinuxembedded-linuxapplication-frameworkembedded-systems
touchao123/ilixi
Feb 2012 - May 2012
Contributions:102 commits in 3 months
cppdirectfblinuxembedded-linuxembedded
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