Azhar Shaikh
Graphics Software Engineer at Intel Corporation
Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAzhar Shaikh is a graphics software engineer based in the Portland, OR area with nearly two decades of embedded systems and kernel-level experience and a decade focused specifically on graphics and platform enablement. Currently at Intel, he works on media driver and video processing enhancements, contributing upstream fixes like VP9 profile support, I420 surface creation, and decoder/encoder alignment improvements that materially boost playback performance. His background includes ChromeOS platform bring-up and USB4 enablement on Intel Chromebooks, plus prior kernel and USB driver work for Qualcomm, Motorola, and Sony, giving him deep device bring-up and low-level debugging chops. Azhar blends driver-level engineering with a practical systems mindset—comfortable navigating hardware constraints, image formats, and cross-platform interoperability. He’s an active contributor to significant open-source projects such as Intel’s media driver, demonstrating an emphasis on measurable performance and compatibility gains. Colleagues rely on him for tough kernel regressions and pragmatic solutions that keep complex multimedia stacks shipping.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Fatima High SchoolBachelor's degree, Electronics, Bachelor's degree, Electronics at University of Mumbai
English
Github Skills (10)
media10
kernel10
intel-media-sdk10
c-language10
driver10
cprogramming-language10
linux-kernel10
video-codec10
vaapi9
vp98
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
intel/media-driver
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
Intel Graphics Media Driver to support hardware decode, encode and video processing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 7 PRs, 4 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Azhar primarily contributed to the Intel media driver, focusing on improving and expanding its capabilities. Their work included fixing X11 support issues, adding support for VP9 video profile, and modifying code to allow for I420 surface creation. The user also addressed issues related to surface alignment and image format support, along with a fix for the num_token_partitions for VP8 encode, which improved decoding performance. These changes suggest a focus on video processing and driver development.
drivergraphichardwarevideo-processing
azharsha/libva
Nov 2018 - Jun 2024
Libva is an implementation for VA-API (VIdeo Acceleration API)
Contributions:2 pushes in 5 years 8 months
apiaccelerationvideo-apivideova-api
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