Artem Galin
Staff Software Engineer at Wayve
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolArtem Galin is a Staff Software Engineer based in London with 7 years of professional experience building performance-focused systems across semiconductor, embedded, and autonomous driving domains. He spent a long tenure at Intel as a Senior Staff Software Application Engineer and now applies that low-level systems expertise at Wayve, bridging hardware-aware optimization with production software. Artem has a strong background in embedded systems and computer science from Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace and Instrumentation, and earlier roles at ARM, AMD and Luxoft reinforce his depth in platform and driver-level development. He contributes to high-profile open-source projects like HandBrake, where he improved Quick Sync Video (QSV) support, fixed AV1 encoder issues, and eliminated memory leaks—showing attention to both performance and reliability. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic code simplifications and cross-layer problem solving that translate hardware capabilities into robust software features. He combines a hardware-oriented mindset with practical delivery experience, making him effective at optimizing complex media and compute pipelines.
7 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Embedded Systems, Master's degree Embedded Systems at Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace and Instrumentation
Русский, English
Github Skills (9)
video-encoder10
transcode10
video-encoding10
transcoding10
video-conversion10
encode9
av1-codec9
c178
c118
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
HandBrake/HandBrake
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
HandBrake's main development repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 reviews, 117 commits, 91 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Artem's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the video transcoding capabilities within the HandBrake repository. They introduced and improved features related to Quick Sync Video (QSV), including the addition of D3D11 enabling, optimizing the zero-copy path, and resolving issues with the AV1 encoder. The user also made code simplifications and addressed warnings and memory leaks within the QSV codebase.
gplv2handbrakemulti-platformjavavideo-transcoding
galinart/HandBrake
Apr 2019 - Mar 2025
HandBrake's main development repository
Contributions:181 pushes, 112 branches in 5 years 11 months
javahandbrake
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