Balaji Selvam
Software Engineer at Cisco
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Summary
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Top SchoolBalaji Selvam is a seasoned software engineer with 18 years’ experience specializing in video and embedded systems, currently contributing at Cisco after a long tenure building set-top and RDK-based video platforms at Comcast. He brings deep C/C++ expertise, strong skills in data structures and algorithms, and hands-on experience with Yocto/Bitbake, RDK, and WebKit integration for media applications. At Comcast he led Netflix app integration and certification on X1 platforms and has a track record of fixing intricate build and SDK compatibility issues in open-source WebKit code. A pragmatic Scrum Master and team player, he pairs low-level systems acumen with release-driven engineering and a history of resolving platform-specific build and API transitions. Based in Chennai with a BE in Computer Science from Anna University, he combines decades of product-facing embedded work with notable contributions to WebKit build stability.
18 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Anna University, Chennai
English, Tamil, Kannada
Github Skills (7)
objective-c10
build-system10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
webkit10
api9
apim9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
WebKit/WebKit-http
Nov 2007 - Dec 2019
Deprecated unofficial http mirror of the WebKit SVN repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2882 commits in 12 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Balaji primarily worked on fixing build issues and addressing deprecation warnings within the WebKit codebase. Their contributions involved suppressing warnings related to deprecated methods and fixing build problems related to the macOS SDK, often involving the inclusion of specific SPI headers and conditional compilation based on SDK versions. The user’s commits also touched on adjusting code to accommodate changes in AppKit APIs and refactoring parts of the build system.
http-mirrorsvnwebkit
appcelerator-archive/webkit_titanium_legacy
Oct 2009 - Feb 2010
Contributions:109 commits in 3 months
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