Dickon Hood
Senior Software Engineer at Codethink
Towcester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDickon Hood is a senior software engineer with 20+ years of hands-on experience in Unix systems, C and Perl development, and end-to-end video delivery systems, currently at Codethink and running his own contracting business. He built robust capture and transcoding platforms for BBC R&D—converting DVB/Freeview/Freesat signals into IPv4/IPv6 multicast streams and automated long-term recording—and has deep expertise in Linux, Solaris, Apache (including custom modules), MPEG-2 TS, ffmpeg and OpenMAX. Comfortable across infrastructure and application layers, he brings pragmatic devops-era skills from before the term existed, plus low-level networking knowledge from Ethernet frame handling to multicast (ASM/SSM). Outside work he experiments with Raspberry Pi video projects (author of an OpenMAX transcoder), brews beer and follows politics and economics, which informs his thoughtful, systems-oriented approach to problem solving.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computational Physics, Computational Physics at University of York
Github Skills (29)
bootloader10
openmax10
precompiled10
userspace10
firmware9
kernel9
raspberry-pi8
gpu8
libclang8
linux-kernel7
clang6
stretch6
buster5
objective-c4
armhf4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dickontoo/omxmotion
Apr 2015 - May 2018
Raspberry Pi motion detector
Contributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 3 years 1 month
raspberry-pi
dickontoo/omxtx
Dec 2012 - Aug 2016
OpenMAX transcoder for the Raspberry Pi
Contributions:30 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 years 8 months
openmaxraspberry-pi
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