Riza Arda K.
About Riza Arda K.
Riza Arda K. is a Senior Software Engineer at TomTom with extensive experience in multimedia streaming and video security.
Title and Current Position
Riza Arda K. holds the position of Senior Software Engineer at TomTom. He began his tenure here in 2023, working out of Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands.
Previous Work Experience
Riza has an extensive background in software engineering, having worked at various companies over the years. He was employed at Twitter as a Software Engineer from 2022 to 2023 in the Netherlands. He also held multiple roles at Irdeto, including Software Engineer for Digital Watermarking from 2021 to 2022 and Software Engineer for OTT/Integration from 2019 to 2021, both in the Amsterdam Area, Netherlands. Additionally, he worked at MTH Technologies B.V. in Istanbul, Turkey for 11 months in 2019. Prior to that, Riza was a Teaching and Research Assistant at Koç University from 2017 to 2019.
Education and Academic Background
Riza Arda K. completed his education at Koç University, where he studied Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He achieved a Master of Science (MS) degree from 2017 to 2019 and a Bachelor's degree from 2011 to 2017.
Technical Expertise and Skills
Riza has developed significant technical expertise throughout his career. He has worked extensively on video security and multimedia streaming engineering, utilizing C/C++, Python, and Docker technologies. He also has experience with media distribution protocols such as HLS, MSS, and MPEG-DASH, and has developed a motion-adaptive streaming by codec tuning algorithm for VP9. His skill set includes working with Amazon Web Services technologies like CloudFormation, Autoscaling, Lambda Functions, S3, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, and RDS.