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Media server development and management of small team.

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

• Implemented a "Together mode" video filter with 49 participant overlay and AI-based background removal running at 30fps with 1080P• CPU core bring-up• Designing and implementing firmware and software features meant for revolutionary ASIC based video processing technologies• Developing custom hardware acceleration libraries in FFmpeg and NETINT software APIs to run bleeding edge video processing services• Optimizing code paths and flow for latency reduction and throughput increase• Firmware loading/bootloading in multi-core devices• Prototyping on FPGA environments • Authoring SW API Integration guide

Canada

• Creating firmware support for FFmpeg software features meant for revolutionary ASIC based video transcoding technologies• Implemented custom hardware acceleration libraries in FFmpeg and vendor software to seamlessly improve performance and efficiency• Developing firmware features for enterprise-level high performance NVMe SSD• Spearheading powerloss protection solutions to guarantee data integrity under non-ideal scenarios• Tackling difficult system-level issues through analysis of hardware, firmware, physical, and environmental characterization• Leveraging C/C++ in firmware design to create robust, functional, optimized code in conjunction with NVMe storage controller• FTL (flash translation layer) design in emergency data backup• Scripting with Python/bash for test automation and development tools• Debugging with JTAG, GDB, UART, I2C, GPIOs, internal logging, PCIE analyzers, logic analyzers, and various other means

Burnaby Public Pools

• Fast response to major and minor first-aid procedures/aquatic rescues for increased survivability and recovery of patients in the event of an accident or incident• Strong communication with fellow lifeguards and patrons for efficient and complete coverage of worksite• Candidate evaluations in swimming proficiency with tests in stroke form and endurance as well as water safety to certify correct levels of education• Minimizing health and safety hazards at work place by maintaining clean and sanitary environment• Completed chemical readings of pool water to evaluate free and combined chlorine levels to ensure low microbial and bacterial levels in pool• Conducting instructional and recreational aquatic programs to all ages resulting in high rate of customer satisfaction and improvement of patron fitness

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Firmware development of new features on a high performance storage controller chip• Bug fixing for various bugs found in simulation and/or FPGA• Code optimization for C/C++• Test script design detailing for test team

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Co-developed entire test automation system for simulation and FPGA with ground-up approach for performing automation testing using Python and 3rd party tools for verification of project`s firmware• Expanded functionality of firmware test tools by developing additional features in C and C++ to enable wider scope of firmware testing• Obtained in depth understanding of data protocols for developing high performance storage controller chip• Wrote formal documentation and wikis to describe critical tasks and test automation protocols • Contributed to in-house test script repository for directed tests on firmware tracked by Git• Provided debug support to firmware development engineers

Vancouver

• Engaged in various software testing methods such as exploratory, black/white box, unit, functional, sanity, regression, acceptance, compatibility, and usability testing for GR’s flagship web application product, Archive 10• Collaborated with frontend and backend developers to clearly define product requirements and criteria while providing crucial feedback on any UI, acceptance criteria, or functional issues.• Demoed tested user story features to product owners, project managers, and other leads for feature acceptance• Designed test cases on Testlog for thorough evaluation of new features with automation testing support• Participated in Agile events such as daily stand-up, sprint review, retrospective, grooming, and similar meetings• Personally generated highly varied testing data for near-exhaustive assessment of Web app capabilities• Coordinated bug/user story reporting, tracking, verification, building with JIRA by Atlassian• Studied/practiced, then held training sessions on new dev tools used for .eml file manipulation and generation