Open water, 2026

My name is June Dekker. I am a systems engineer in Berlin, currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at Unity Technologies GmbH. Outside that role, I do independent research across ML systems, speech and audio, codecs, formal methods, media runtimes, GPU compute, and low-level infrastructure. I live in the CET/CEST timezone.

I use the word research in a practical sense. I am not trying to recreate academia outside a university; I care about research when it produces leverage: better models of a problem, working implementations, infrastructure, and tools that make the next layer of work possible.

Work

The specific projects change, but the work usually starts at the point where a field stops being abstract. That might be a VM, metric, layout engine, proof condition, inference path, codec, or runtime: the piece that decides whether the surrounding idea can actually hold. I care about making those pieces inspectable, measurable, constrained, and useful enough for other work to build on.

From 2019 until 2025, I worked professionally in multimedia on FOSS projects including FFmpeg, libx264, libx265, mpv, and checkasm. My focus was optimized codec routines, especially AArch64 and RISC-V assembly, along with the test and benchmarking infrastructure needed to keep that work honest.

Before that, I worked on embedded devices across consumer, industrial, and military sectors, mostly near the kernel and operating-system layers for mesh networking devices and radios.

Personal

I like systems with hidden structure: codecs, cameras, transport streams, macro expanders, club sound, city infrastructure, typography, old standards, and small tools that make daily life less annoying.

Photography is one of the places where the technical and artistic sides meet for me. I care about sensors, optics, color, compression, and the physical act of looking closely at a place. I also spend a lot of time around electronic music and night culture; it scratches the same itch for intensity, texture, timing, and systems that only really make sense from the inside.

Travel has taken me all over the world, and I regularly attend technical conferences in Europe like FOSDEM in Brussels and Chaos Communication Congress by the CCC in Hamburg.

Contact

You may contact me via email, additionally my telephone number and mailing address are available upon request.

Email: jdek@itanimul.li