Principal Software Engineer
Hampshire, United Kingdom
• Worked as a software integrator, combining a variety of STB middleware components ensuring that the resultant middleware operated seamlessly with lower level driver software and higher-level User Interface software.• Designed/Developed software features in a variety of middleware sub-components.• Documented sub-component design to ensure its easy understanding by other software developers thus improving the system wide middleware integration process.• Documented specialized and complex design implementation with the aim of preserving knowledge and design decisions for the future.• Considered invaluable by project managers when customer reported problems arise resulting in the need for an urgent on-site customer premises visit to international destinations often at short notice.• Developed a Hybrid IP end-to-end test system allowing content delivery from CDN server to STB to be tested including bandwidth limitation, packet loss and traffic prioritization.• Awarded a Chief Executive Officer award for emergency visit to Sky Brasil immediately prior to new year holiday period.
