Billy Ye
Software Engineering Manager at Intel Corporation
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Summary
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Top SchoolBilly Ye is a seasoned software engineering manager based in Shanghai with over 7 years of experience leading teams at Intel and a longer engineering career in graphics and video systems. He has deep domain expertise in video/graphics driver development and tracing—contributing to high-profile projects like Intel's media-driver where he added DDI-level trace events and improved logging for video processing and ClearView features. Billy progressed from senior engineer roles at S3 Graphics and Atheros to technical lead and manager positions at Intel, blending hands-on backend development with team leadership. He holds a master’s degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and is known for turning low-level driver challenges into reliable, observable systems that aid diagnostics and production stability.
7 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Master’s Degree at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (4)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
intel/media-driver
Mar 2019 - Sep 2022
Intel Graphics Media Driver to support hardware decode, encode and video processing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 9 commits, 3 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Billy's contributions primarily involve adding and modifying trace events within the Intel Media Driver. They focused on logging DDI-level events, including those related to VP (Video Processing) and ClearView functionalities. The changes added new trace points and included modifications to existing logging mechanisms, specifically within the OS-dependent tracing implementations and the broader media-driver codebase. Further contributions included enhancements to Media trace RT log and associated error reporting.
intel/libva
Apr 2021 - Feb 2022
Libva is an implementation for VA-API (Video Acceleration API)
Contributions:1 review in 10 months
apiaccelerationvideo-decodingvideo-processingvideo-api
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