Werner Robitza
Founder, CEO at AVEQ
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolWerner Robitza is a founder and CEO with 15 years of deep expertise in video Quality of Experience (QoE) research and production-grade monitoring solutions. He co-founded AVEQ to commercialize flexible QoS/QoE tooling used by leading ISPs and led large-scale national monitoring projects combining crowdsourcing, benchmarking and real-user measurements. Technically hands-on, he guides software development across JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, C++ and data platforms (Elasticsearch, Grafana) while personally delivering statistical analyses and architecture decisions. His background spans academic research at University of Vienna, TU Berlin and Ilmenau and active standards work in VQEG/ITU-T, ensuring industry-aligned innovations. An open-source contributor as well (notably to ffmpeg-normalize), he blends practical media tooling contributions with product leadership. Based in Vienna, he is now focused on scaling AVEQ’s international footprint to help operators and streaming providers improve customer satisfaction.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Vienna
English, German
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Github Skills (26)
python10
ffmpeg10
audio10
android10
macos10
adb10
r9
javascript9
command-line-interface9
pandas9
ggplot9
pagination9
php9
html9
testing8
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
slhck/ffmpeg-normalize
Jul 2014 - Jan 2023
Audio Normalization for Python/ffmpeg
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 11 reviews, 326 commits in 8 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Werner primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `ffmpeg-normalize` project, implementing features and fixing bugs related to audio normalization using the `ffmpeg` library and Python. Their commits demonstrate improvements and modifications to the main Python script (`normalize.py`) and its command-line arguments, including fixing bugs and integrating with ffmpeg. They also handled build and release improvements.
audioffmpegpython
slhck/compress-pptx
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
Compress a PPTX file, converting all PNG/TIFF images to lossy JPEGs
Contributions:1 release, 41 commits, 1 PR in 2 years
pngtiffpythonpptx
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