Daryl Seah Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas, US

Redmond, Washington, US

• Perform root cause analysis, mitigate incidents, and fix bugs for the CRUD sub-team, minimizing incidents for production CRUD operations
• Provided CRUD knowledge and collaborated in the design process to add server-level multi-tenancy feature for the Hyperscale storage solution, increasing the efficiency of CPU utilization
• Implemented database service level objective update functionality and the test framework for the new storage architecture for Hyperscale in C#, lowering overall operating costs for Microsoft
• Designed and executed change for database point-in-time restore feature, using object-oriented language abstractions to accommodate new cost-saving storage features for the service
• Took initiative to boost new hire productivity by crafting onboarding and support documentation, helping 10+ new hires onboard effectively during WFH

Redmond, Washington, US

Santa Clara, California, US

• Showcased the capability of Intel software encoders across different technologies (VR, 5G) by communicating, assisting and collaborating with customers and various Intel groups through their use cases
• Responsible for leading the team towards the successful software releases for multiple open-source projects by coordinating with Intel’s security teams and executing software release plan
• Upheld the integrity of multiple open-source projects on GitHub by maintaining and integrating pull requests of multiple open-source projects through verifying that pull requests comply to Intel standards
• Researched and analysed video-quality and speed data collected across multiple software/hardware video encoders from competitors using internal measurement tools to ensure the Intel software encoders remain competitive
• Coordinated with supervisor to manage and delegate appropriate tasks to software interns by assessing the strengths and weaknesses of individual interns to ensure projects can be completed effectively and efficiently
• Created and implemented a modular automated test plans to uncover, expose and identify bugs for multiple projects that can be easily modifiable to include additional test cases

Santa Clara, California, US

• Facilitated a successful presentation of the H.265/HEVC software encoder at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show in Las Vegas by building a live video streaming pipeline to demonstrate real-time encode.
• Developed a software video player capable of playing 4k60Hz content using C++ and SDL 2.0 API, equipped with intuitive GUI and debugging features such as live PSNR/SSIM calculator, histogram and colour space separator
• Improved playback performance of video player to display 4k60Hz in 10bit format with help from the hardware acceleration on the BlackMagic DeckLink PCIe card, coded using the provided BlackMagic API and documentation
• Tracked bugs reported on Jira using Apache Subversion (SVN) and applied debugging techniques in Microsoft Visual Studio to fix bugs present in the H.265/HEVC software encoder
• Established and maintained comprehensive Python test suite to run tests on a nightly basis on both Windows and Linux operating systems for the H.265/HEVC software encoder
• Assembled computer and network systems as well as repaired any computer and hardware components when damaged

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Engineering

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