Darwin Huang
Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDarwin Huang is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience and roughly six years at Google, now bringing media and systems expertise to Bloomberg in New York. He has designed and shipped cross-platform media and clipboard APIs used by Chrome, YouTube, Google Photos, and Android’s Media3 Transformer, including HDR tone-mapping and a multithreaded video frame pipeline that cut crash rates and expanded HDR support dramatically. Comfortable in C++, Java, OpenGL and backend stacks, he has a track record of driving cross-team integration, improving performance and reliability, and mentoring junior engineers. His open-source contributions to androidx/media advance HDR video transcoding by implementing HLG/PQ color transfers and codec-profile fixes—work that directly improves real-world video workflows. Pragmatic and product-focused, he aims to make software that measurably improves user experiences across devices and platforms.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Hudson High SchoolBachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
video-processing10
javas10
opengl-es10
video-encoding10
android10
java10
http6
html6
ssl6
html5-canvas6
google-chrome6
clipboard6
javascript6
canvas6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
androidx/media
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Jetpack Media3 support libraries for media use cases, including ExoPlayer, an extensible media player for Android
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 109 commits, 51 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Darwin's contributions primarily involve modifications to the `transformer` library within the `androidx/media` repository, focusing on HDR (High Dynamic Range) video processing. They implemented and refined HLG (Hybrid Log-Gamma) and PQ (Perceptual Quantizer) EOTF (Electro-Optical Transfer Function) and OETF (Opto-Electrical Transfer Function) for color transfer, allowing for more accurate tone mapping between HDR and SDR color spaces. Furthermore, the user worked on setting the codec profile and level to reduce errors, and integrated these capabilities within the transformation pipeline to handle different color transfer characteristics correctly. These changes enhance the library's functionality for HDR video transcoding.
jetpack-media3casesplayerexoplayeruse-cases
dway123/clipboard-pickling
Oct 2020 - Jun 2021
An explainer for the Pickling proposal for the Clipboard API
Contributions:11 reviews, 10 commits, 2 PRs in 8 months
apiexplainerclipboardclipboard-api
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