Philip Tang Email & Phone Number

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

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

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.
• 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