Daniel Charles
Software Technical Lead Architect at Intel Corporation
Hillsboro, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Charles is a seasoned Software Technical Lead Architect with 15 years of experience driving multimedia, embedded, and AI-enabled software across Intel and earlier embedded systems roles. He blends low-level C and Linux expertise—having worked on GStreamer, LibVA video codec parsers, and Android adaptations for VA-API—with machine learning-driven tooling that optimizes hardware validation at scale. Known for mentoring engineers and coordinating cross-company efforts (notably between Intel and Google to resolve Chromebook multimedia issues), he reliably turns complex integration problems into deployed solutions. An active contributor to the widely used intel/libva project, he has hands-on experience adapting open-source stacks (TensorFlow, oneAPI, OpenVINO, FFmpeg) for optimized GPU-accelerated performance. Based in Hillsboro, Oregon, he combines deep systems knowledge with a pragmatic focus on people, processes, and measurable deployment outcomes.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MS Telecommunications, MS Telecommunications at Tecnológico de Monterrey
English, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
video-processing10
c1710
videojs10
vimeo-api10
api10
vaapi10
c1110
android10
youtube-api10
system-design9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
intel/libva
Aug 2012 - Sep 2017
Libva is an implementation for VA-API (Video Acceleration API)
Role in this project:
Back-end & System Engineer
Back-end & System EngineerContributions:1 release, 8 commits, 2 PRs in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to integrating Android logging utilities and adapting the library for Android compatibility. Their work involved defining logging tags and modifying the logging functions to work with the Android logging system. They also implemented changes related to VP9 encoder traces, adding detailed information to trace buffers within the libva project. Furthermore, they added a license to a header file.
apiaccelerationvideo-decodingvideo-processingvideo-api
intel/omxil_core
Mar 2011 - Jun 2014
Contributions:40 commits in 3 years 3 months
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