HO CHUEN AU

Productization
Participated into entire development cycle of over 10 consumer products, including drones, action camera, industrial heavy duty drones and cinema grade cameras. Focusing on video codec on embedded system. Leader of small codec team with 3 - 5 person. Established solid foundation of HAL layer to support difference application scenario that solved real world problem.

• Product scope definition
• Drivers on embedded linux
• Performance tuning & Resources optimization
• CI / CD tools and test automation
• Customer support

SOC development
Leader of codec team to ensure the silicon is capable for product to be ready for the market. Carry out PRE & POST silicon validation, ensure the silicon is free of potential errors or design fault. Feedback the experience obtained from productization, proposal the next generation solution to ensure the SOC compatibility on the market.

• Design strong binding hardware and software design for extreme performance
• DDR memory usage and bandwidth analysis
• Automation tools development for heavy duty silicon validation
• SOC IP power optimization

Keywords: H264 | HEVC | Prores | ProresRAW | Blackmagic BRAW | Silicon verification | SOC design | Embedded Linux | Performance Optimization | DDR usage control | CI/CD | Robot Framework | Team leading

Software development and integration on Set Top Box devices. Established solid foundation of software architecture design and knowledge of multimedia. Also developed strong cross culture cooperation skill.

• Over-the-top (OTT) application certification on Set Top Box devices, including Netflix 5.2, Netflix 4.2, Vudu, Youtube TV
• Advanced media technology integration on Set Top Box devices, for example: 4K UHD, HEVC, MPEG-DASH, VP9, Dolby MS12, HDR, 360 video, DRM...etc
• Owner of PVR feature such video index cut, timeshift TV, extreme performance optimization on high bitrate video recording

Keywords: Embedded Linux | Disk Performance Optimization | Video Compression | Video Streaming | DRM | HDCP | HDR | MPEG-DASH | Migration | Design Pattern | HDMI

As a fast learning fresh fresh graduate, quick became an owner of several drivers of external peripheral device which connected by I2C, SPI...etc

• Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) software development
• Linux on embedded system
• Hardware peripheral device driver porting (e.g. TV Tuner, Wifi)
• Contribute to media related feature including video indexing and performance optimization of media player

Keywords: Drivers | Embedded linux