Resume
Curriculum vitæ
I’m the president of the VideoLAN non-profit org, one of the lead developers of VLC and maintainer of numerous open source libraries. I’ve lead numerous projects around VLC and the VideoLAN community, including ports of VLC on mobile platforms and LGPL relicensing of libVLC.
I created several companies around multimedia, gaming and the open source ecosystem. I was CTO of several large companies, and I am advisor to VC and startups
I now focus on kyber
You can find a version of my resume in PDF.
Bio
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Jean-Baptiste is a 42-year old French engineer focusing on open source and startups.
Jean-Baptiste Kempf is the creator (and the president) of the VideoLAN non-profit and a key figure behind VLC media player.
Heavily involved in the past 20 years in the open source ecosystems, he is the maintainer of dozens of open source projects, has founded multiple startups in the multimedia and gaming space, advised VCs and numerous startups and has led large engineering teams at scale.
After being CTO/VP Engineering of several startups and scaleups, including the gaming startup Shadow, Vente-Privée, and the cloud provider Scaleway, he is now focusing on Kyber, a new open technology start-up made to control machines, drones and robots in real time.