Denise Lafayette
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDenise Lafayette is a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years building multimedia-rich Android experiences and embedded graphics systems, currently shaping playback and platform features at Netflix. Her career bridges chipset-level video and camera driver work at ATI/AMD and Qualcomm with mobile platform architecture and privacy-focused SDKs at Yahoo/Oath, giving her rare end-to-end expertise from silicon to app. She led Android account and authentication integrations and designed a GDPR-focused privacy SDK, demonstrating both security-minded product delivery and hands-on engineering leadership. Based in Canada and trained as an electrical engineer at the University of Waterloo, she combines deep systems knowledge with modern Android practice. Colleagues rely on her to translate complex multimedia constraints into reliable, production-grade solutions that scale in consumer products.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Electrical Engineering at University of Waterloo
Filipino, Chinese
Github Skills (12)
kotlin10
extensible10
exoplayer10
media-player10
android10
java10
player10
espresso9
unit-testing9
unit-testing-framework8
testing8
robolectric8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
dlafayet/ExoPlayer
Mar 2021 - Jul 2021
An extensible media player for Android
Contributions:22 pushes, 11 branches in 4 months
androidkotlinmedia-playerextensibleplayer
dlafayet/WebViewCustomFont
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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