Rufael Mekuria
Principal Engineer at Huawei
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRufael Mekuria is a Principal Engineer and research-minded standards leader with 11+ years building immersive media, point-cloud codecs, and large-scale streaming systems from R&D through industry-wide standardisation. He led the creation of MPEG’s first point cloud codec and quality metrics, drove a 20+ company Call for Proposals, and co-founded MPEG groups on 5G media delivery that include Samsung, Huawei, Nokia and others. At Unified Streaming he bridged cutting-edge research and production platforms, while his live ingest spec reached IETF draft status and engaged cloud and CDN leaders like AWS and Akamai. A published PhD researcher and award-winning conference author, he combines deep C++ multimedia engineering with hands-on work in distributed systems, edge/cloud media processing and standards negotiation. Based in Amsterdam, he now represents industry interests at Huawei and 3GPP while maintaining a track record of turning academic innovations into interoperable products. An unusual strength is his ability to shepherd nascent codec and ingest specs from prototype anchors into broad multi-vendor adoption.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Vrije UniversiteitM.Sc Electrical Engineering Telecom Multimedia, M.Sc Electrical Engineering Telecom Multimedia at Delft University of Technology
French, German, English, Dutch
Github Skills (51)
pcl10
hbbtv10
ingest10
point-cloud10
drm9
mpeg9
broadcast9
cpp9
computer-vision9
react8
w3c8
mpeg-dash8
mp48
point-cloud-library8
mov8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Dash-Industry-Forum/Ingest
Nov 2018 - Mar 2022
Contributions:216 commits, 82 PRs, 211 pushes in 3 years 4 months
unifiedstreaming/cmaf-ingest-demo
Jun 2019 - Aug 2021
demonstrates dash-if cmaf ingest to unified origin
Contributions:26 commits, 25 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
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