About Ryvr Tech Ltd
Ryvr Tech Ltd is an independent technical consultancy founded by Herve Jourdain, based in Linkou, Taiwan. The company specialises in the RDK ecosystem and embedded Linux platforms for consumer electronics – Smart TVs, Set-Top Boxes, and connected IoT devices.
Ryvr Tech maintains its own RDK-V platform – used in production by clients and continuously developed as a reference stack for constrained-resource deployments. Engagements are grounded in real, running software – certified Premium Apps, a proven security posture, and the full certification pipeline delivered end-to-end.
With over 35 years of experience in embedded systems, real-time, network, telecom and TV/STB development, Herve brings genuine authority to every engagement. Ryvr Tech releases open-source tools built from real production work – see the Open Source page.
Herve Jourdain – Founder and President
Senior embedded systems engineer and digital TV specialist with 35+ years of experience. Graduate of ENSEEIHT.
Formerly General Manager Asia and VP Architecture at Beechwoods Software (Linkou, Taiwan). Comcast XI3 Project Manager. OCF Healthcare Project Chair. OCF Audio Video Task Group Chair. RDK Tech Summit panelist (Tiny RDK-V, Sky Campus London, November 2021). EdgeX Foundry contributor.
Career Highlights
Founder and President – Ryvr Tech Ltd (2022-Present, Linkou, Taiwan)
Independent consulting for the RDK, embedded Linux, and IoT ecosystem. Maintains production RDK-V platforms used by clients – certified for Amazon Prime Video and YouTube, plus constrained-resource builds running in 1 GB of RAM, with the full certification pipeline delivered end-to-end including penetration testing. Open-source projects: FinLightning, DABScope, StreamPack.
General Manager Asia / VP Architecture – Beechwoods Software (2016-2022, Linkou, Taiwan)
Led the Asia-Pacific office. System Engineering, Software Architecture, API design and performance. RDK-V and RDK-B on MSTAR and Hisilicon. DeJiaVU home IoT UI. World first ARM64 RDK-B build on Raspberry Pi 3 (Yocto 2.1). Comcast XI3 Project Manager. TTS for Spanish on MSTAR.
RDK Tech Summit Panelist – Tiny RDK-V (November 2021, Sky Campus, London)
Panelist alongside Glee Abraham (RDK), Khem Raj, and Michael Fiess.
OCF Healthcare Project Chair and Audio Video Task Group Chair (2018-2022)
Defined interoperability and security specifications for Healthcare IoT and Audio/Video IoT (TV/STB, surveillance cameras).
Open Source Projects
- FinLightning – Jellyfin client in Lightning 3, runs on RDK-V and Samsung Tizen from a single codebase
- DABScope – DAB 2.1 device testing and certification tool (Flutter, MQTT 5, Windows and Linux)
- StreamPack – HLS/DASH encoder and manifest validator (Flutter, NVIDIA GPU, Windows)
All public projects: github.com/hjourdain-ryvr
Community Involvement
RDK Community – Active contributor: technical blog on AppArmor and production security, RDK Tech Summit speaker, ongoing community engagement as RDK licensee and contributor.
Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) – Former Chair of the OCF Healthcare Project and Audio Video Task Group.
EdgeX Foundry (Linux Foundation) – Active contributor through Beechwoods Software.