Aaron Boxer
Senior Software Developer at Grok Image Compression Inc.
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Boxer is a senior software developer and founder with 15 years of experience building high-performance systems for media, medical imaging, and geospatial applications. Currently at Collabora and leading Grok Image Compression, he specializes in squeezing performance out of code—particularly video rendering and image codecs—and has deep expertise integrating VA-API and Wayland for efficient video output in the popular mpv player. His background includes architecting a large-scale RIS/PACS system for University Health Network, optimizing delivery of huge medical images over slow networks and constrained hardware. Aaron pairs an M.Sc. in Mathematics with hands-on systems engineering and a founder’s product sensibility, able to move from low-level driver work to shipping commercial codecs. Colleagues describe him as a maker who thrives on measurable speedups and elegant, pragmatic refactors that improve compatibility and resource use.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc, Mathematics, M.Sc, Mathematics at The University of British ColumbiaB.Sc., Mathematics and Physics (Double Major), B.Sc., Mathematics and Physics (Double Major) at University of Toronto - University College
French
Github Skills (9)
c1710
multimedia10
vaapi10
c1110
wayland10
mpv10
ffmpeg9
decoding9
drm8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
mpv-player/mpv
May 2022 - Jan 2023
🎥 Command line media player
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 reviews, 15 commits, 19 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributed to the video output (VO) drivers within the mpv player, specifically focusing on the Wayland and VA-API integration. Their work included implementing new drivers like `vo_dmabuf_wayland` for displaying dmabuf buffers, enabling support for panscan and panning, and improving error handling and memory management within the Wayland environment. The user also refactored code to allow coexistence between VAAPI and Wayland, indicating a focus on improving video rendering performance and compatibility.
command-linempvmplayercffmpeg
GrokStreaming/gstreamer
Nov 2015 - Sep 2018
Contributions:241 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
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