Thomas Rücker
Lead Product Architect Architect Information Security
Helsinki Metropolitan Area Finland
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Top SchoolThomas Rücker is a Lead Product Architect and Information Security architect with 14+ years of experience blending deep technical expertise—from embedded Linux, kernel and RF propagation to circuit design—with product and program leadership. Fluent in three languages and seasoned in cross-cultural, multinational environments, he drives platform evolution by aligning product roadmaps with security and agile delivery practices. A long-time open source maintainer, he has been formally maintaining the widely used Icecast streaming server since 2011 and has contributed security and HTTPS hardening, protocol extensions and web UI improvements. His background spans industrial management, electrical engineering and software, enabling him to move effortlessly between low-level engineering details and strategic product decisions. Colleagues rely on him to broker partnerships (notably helping Tieto work with Jolla) and to translate open-source culture into tangible business outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BA Int.Mgmt., Business Management, Computer Science, BA Int.Mgmt., Business Management, Computer Science at Poznańska Wyższa Szkoła BiznesuIndustrial Management, Industrial Management at Tampere University of TechnologyTechnischen Universität Darmstadt
German, Polish, English, Finnish, Latin, Russian, French
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Github Skills (22)
media-services10
c1110
c1710
media-player10
streaming10
security9
configuration-management9
http9
configuration-file9
configurations9
xml8
xslt8
documentation7
beaglebone-black6
shoutcast6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
xiph/Icecast-Server
Nov 2011 - Oct 2018
Icecast streaming media server (Mirror) - Please report bugs at https://gitlab.xiph.org/xiph/icecast-server/issues
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:145 commits, 1 PR, 19 comments in 7 years
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily focused on bug fixes and enhancements to the Icecast server's core functionality. Their contributions included addressing security vulnerabilities by implementing fixes related to file serving and logging, as well as improving HTTPS security and cipher support. They also made documentation updates, corrected typos, and added details about configuration options. Furthermore, they implemented support for HTTP PUT requests and improved the web interface.
reporticecast-serverstreaminggitlabmedia-streaming
dm8tbr/irssi-mqtt-notify
Jul 2014 - Feb 2016
Contributions:18 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 1 year 6 months
mqttirssinotifications
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