Amir Naghdinezhad
Technical Lead-Senior Video Codec Engineer at Intel Corporation
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolAmir Naghdinezhad is a technical lead and senior video codec engineer with seven years at Intel and over a decade in multimedia research and product development. He specializes in video compression standards (H.264/HEVC, MPEG, JPEG2000) and has led SVT-AV1 rate-control and ultra-low-latency optimizations as well as performance and speed-memory-BDRate trade-off improvements across SVT codecs. Equally comfortable in C/C++, Java, Matlab and hardware description languages (VHDL/Verilog), he bridges algorithm research and production-grade encoder/decoder implementations. His background spans real-time conferencing and VOD solutions, visual-quality research (blurriness, flicker, blockiness) and unequal error protection for scalable video, reflecting both academic depth from McGill and hands-on silicon-aware design. Based in Vancouver, he combines rigorous PhD-level research experience with pragmatic leadership driving widely used open-source codec engines.
7 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Engineering, Masters, Computer Engineering at University of TehranPhD, Electrical Engineering, PhD, Electrical Engineering at McGill University
Github Skills (11)
gitlab10
shieldsio9
encoder7
trello4
github4
bit2
monorepo1
mailing1
mailing-list1
hevc1
gstreamer1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
anaghdin/SVT-AV1
Feb 2019 - Dec 2020
Welcome to the GitHub repo for the SVT-AV1 encoder! To see a list of feature request and view what is planned for the SVT-AV1 encoder, visit our Trello page: http://bit.ly/SVT-AV1 Help us grow the community by subscribing to our SVT-AV1 mailing list! http://bit.ly/svt-av1-mailing
Contributions:20 PRs, 79 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 10 months
feature-requestvisitmailing-listmailingav1-encoder
anaghdin/iVSR
Apr 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 3 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.