Michael Denczek

Michael Denczek has over 30 years of experience in software architecture, design, development, and testing. Michael currently works as a Senior Software Engineer at Rekor, where they design and implements video-based technologies using GStreamer and FFMPEG on the NVidia Jetson Xavier SOM platform. Michael also supports and maintains the OpenALPR cross-platform libraries and API libraries.

Previously, Michael worked at Safe Fleet as a Senior Digital Media Specialist, where they designed and implemented embedded Linux proof-of-concept recording libraries and scalable Azure cloud-based transcoding system technologies. Michael also developed Windows-based digital media player applications using DirectShow technologies.

Michael has also served as the President and Founder of Bitstream Media, LLC, providing consulting services for digital media and artificial intelligence-based software solutions.

Additionally, Michael has experience as a Digital Media Consultant at ZeroEyes, where they designed and implemented GStreamer-based pipelines for real-time detection of guns using the Nvidia Deepstream SDK AI inferencing architecture. Michael also integrated Docker container support for scalable cloud-based inferencing functionality.

Furthermore, they have worked as a Digital Media Engineer at DragonFly Athletics, performing software design and development on the DragonFly Storm digital media conversion system. Michael also worked as a Principal Software Engineer at Brijot Imaging Systems, where they developed software for millimeter wave object detection systems for the security industry.

Michael has also worked as a Software Engineering Manager at CoreTec Communications, where they designed and developed access control and video surveillance systems. Michael has experience in software design and development at Vingage Corporation, where they developed multimedia-based projects and technologies for digital media encoding and distribution.

Michael started their career as a Senior Software Engineer at helloNetwork, performing object-oriented analysis, design, and development of digital media components. Michael also worked as a Project Technical Lead Consultant at Intel Corporation/Convera, designing and developing interactive multimedia-based software projects, including the End2End project used in the Australian Summer Olympic Games.

Overall, Michael Denczek has a diverse range of experience in software development, with a focus on digital media and artificial intelligence-based solutions.

Michael Denczek completed their education in a sequential manner, starting with a Computer Programmer Trainee Certification from the Southern California Regional Occupational Center in 1983. Michael then pursued further studies at El Camino College from 1985 to 1988, where they obtained an Associate of Arts in General Education degree. Afterwards, they attended San Diego State University from 1988 to 1992, where they earned a Bachelor of Arts and Science in Aerospace Engineering. Lastly, they pursued a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University from 1993 to 1994.