Software Engineer (Contract)
Based in Berkeley, CA
Duration
Sep 2024 – Jan 2025
Responsibilities & Achievements
- Developed and optimized ML models, achieving 91.9% bitwise accuracy in predicting video encoding partitions
- Designed ML-driven video compression strategies based on SVT-AV1, reducing compute to 10-20% of brute-force methods while maintaining 5-6% encoding quality loss
- Built end-to-end ML pipelines which include data generation, training, and inference scripts, processing ~60GB of data and 10 million data points to support model development and deployment