Dewei Chen is a Senior Systems Software Engineer with 12 years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems for HPC, AI infrastructure, video streaming, and robotics. Based in San Francisco, he has driven technical leadership at NVIDIA, Verkada, and Starsky Robotics, building globally distributed HPC clusters, low-latency HLS/WebRTC streaming services, and fleet-scale orchestration and playback platforms. He is a pragmatic tinkerer fluent in Go, Python, C/C++ and TypeScript, who favors simple, elegant solutions to hard engineering problems. Notably, his open-source work includes client-side RTSP/RTP streaming implementations that reflect deep, hands-on expertise in real-time media systems. He combines academic training from NYU Courant and a mechanical engineering background with a track record of shipping resilient, production-grade systems at scale.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Implementation of a streaming video server and client that communicate using the Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) and send data using the Realtime Transfer Protocol (RTP)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:54 commits, 3 PRs, 50 pushes in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Dewei primarily focused on implementing client-side functionality for an RTSP client-server application. Their contributions included initializing and managing various RTSP states (INIT, READY, PLAYING), sending and receiving RTSP requests (SETUP, PLAY, PAUSE, TEARDOWN, DESCRIBE), and processing responses from the server. They also worked on receiving and displaying RTP packets, including metadata.
Contributions:13 PRs, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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