Di Zhang
Senior Architect at NVIDIA
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Summary
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Top SchoolDi Zhang is a Senior Architect and cuDNN developer at NVIDIA with eight years of experience building high-performance software for consumer electronics and graphics/video processing. With a Master’s in Software Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, she combines low-level expertise in codecs and OpenCL with practical engineering skills in Java, Bash, and system tooling. Her open-source contributions to Intel's widely used media-driver show deep familiarity with HEVC/AVC encoding internals, motion vector precision, and resource initialization—skills that translate to optimized hardware-accelerated pipelines. Previously she led R&D at SlamTec and cut her teeth at ARM and Intel, giving her a blend of research, management, and hands-on implementation experience. Based in Shanghai, she is comfortable bridging academia-grade rigor and production-focused delivery, often surfacing non-obvious performance fixes in complex multimedia stacks.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Software Engineering, Master, Software Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English
Github Skills (6)
code-optimization10
encode10
c-language10
video-encoding10
cprogramming-language10
hevc10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
intel/media-driver
Nov 2021 - Oct 2022
Intel Graphics Media Driver to support hardware decode, encode and video processing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Di primarily contributed to the Intel Media Driver, focusing on video encoding and related features. Their work involved cleaning up and optimizing include files, particularly those related to HEVC encoding and subregion functionalities. They also addressed issues related to resource initialization and implemented features like motion vector precision, demonstrating a strong understanding of low-level codec implementations and video processing. The user also touched on AVC encoding and general code cleanup across various files.
pamzerbhu/MediaSDK
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
The Intel® Media SDK
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
intel-media-sdkintelsdkvideo
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