Nikola Kolarović

Resident engineer in ASK Industries, Niederwinkling, Germany. Remotely leading RT-RK Automotive team assigned to ASK Industries, complying to ASPICE processes. Technically coordinating a range of tasks related to audio amplifier ECU development: from low level-driver development to application software, DSP algorithm implementation, unit tests and code reviews.

Technical lead on next-generation Vidity DRM library and integration for 4K HDR10 set-top box based on Android Open Source Project, on behalf of Western Digital, CA, USA. Responsible for development process of all set-top box features on top of Android and several SoC. Architecture, design and implementation of secure playback path and video watermarking, streaming and media player code, etc.

Key member of team developing Vestel IP7350 and Vestel IP7630 set-top boxes based on BeeSmart/Ekioh middleware. Working along with Verification and QA teams and coordinating software development team. Handling customer communication, integration and deployment process, on-site and long-term support. Software development activities on top of Broadcom Nexus driver, GNU/Linux and various IPTV protocol stacks (multicast streaming, RTSP, HTTP Chunked encoding, HLS, Smooth Streaming, fast channel change).