Christopher Degawa
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Degawa is a software engineer with nine years of experience focused on video and audio codecs, CI/CD infrastructure, and test automation, currently completing a Computer Science degree at the University of Tennessee while pursuing a remote master’s. He is an active open-source maintainer and contributor—work spans media-autobuild_suite and high-profile repos like SVT-HEVC and Git for Windows—where he improves build systems, cross-platform compatibility, and robustness against platform-specific edge cases. Self-taught in C through hands-on open-source development and formally trained in C++ at university, he bridges low-level codec internals with practical build and release engineering. His contributions show a knack for making tooling resilient (e.g., fixes for Wine/ReactOS interactions and DXVA support in MSYS2 packages) and for hardening tests across platforms. Based in Memphis, he combines a systems-oriented mindset with CI automation expertise to streamline media software delivery. Colleagues can expect a pragmatic engineer who learns by shipping fixes that keep complex multimedia stacks building and running.
9 years of coding experience
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Japanese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (33)
json10
code-optimization10
debug10
c-language10
multiplatform10
package-management10
patch10
testing10
mingw10
bash10
cross-platform10
cmake10
c1110
batchfile10
header-files10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
OpenVisualCloud/SVT-HEVC
Mar 2019 - Nov 2022
SVT HEVC encoder. Scalable Video Technology (SVT) is a software-based video coding technology that is highly optimized for Intel® Xeon® processors. Using the open source SVT-HEVC encoder, it is possible to spread video encoding processing across multiple Intel® Xeon® processors to achieve a real advantage of processing efficiency.
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:32 commits, 45 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on build system and CI/CD related tasks. Their commits include enabling support for Visual Studio 2019, fixing build scripts for various environments including Linux and Windows, and refactoring the build process to support both static and shared library builds. They also made adjustments to the build process and CMake configuration to fix issues with multi-level bin folders, build type settings, and generator flags, contributing to the overall build efficiency and compatibility.
hevclibfdk-aacprocessorsc-plus-plusvideo
jpmens/jo
Apr 2021 - Oct 2022
JSON output from a shell
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 8 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to code quality and bug fixing within the `jo` repository, a tool for creating JSON output from the shell. Their work focused on addressing compiler warnings and improving code robustness. Key contributions include casting data types to silence warnings, converting empty macro functions, removing duplicate code, fixing issues related to size comparisons, and reimplementing error handling macros as functions. These changes enhance the stability and maintainability of the project.
a-shelljson-outputshelljson
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