Diego Waxemberg
Software Engineer at Yelp
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDiego Waxemberg is a San Francisco–based software engineer with 13 years of experience building consumer-facing systems at Yelp, where he progressed from intern to engineering manager and returned to hands-on engineering. He brings deep mobile and multimedia experience, contributing to open-source game-streaming clients (moonlight-ios and moonlight-android) with work on video depacketization, rendering, controller input, and performance improvements. Comfortable across the stack, Diego has blended individual contributor craft with people leadership, shipping features at scale in a fast-paced product environment. His background includes academic roots in computer science at Case Western Reserve and hands-on research in medical robotics, showing an appetite for systems that bridge hardware and software. Colleagues would describe him as pragmatic and technically curious, often tackling lower-level media and input challenges that most app engineers avoid.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Case Western Reserve University
Portuguese
Github Skills (17)
live-streaming10
ios10
streaming-video10
ui-design10
interface-design10
java10
javas10
stream10
android10
user-input10
streaming10
h2649
decoding9
mp49
android-app9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
moonlight-stream/moonlight-ios
Jan 2014 - Oct 2019
GameStream client for iOS/tvOS
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:11 releases, 246 commits, 3 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Diego contributed to the iOS game streaming client by adding foundational UI components, including button actions and pickerView controls, and integrating basic video decoding. They added code for a video depacketizer and a simple test H.264 file, indicating involvement in processing and displaying video streams. Further contributions included video rendering libraries and renderer code, demonstrating efforts to display the video stream within the iOS application.
nvidiaios-apptvosmoonlighttvos-app
moonlight-stream/moonlight-android
Sep 2013 - Dec 2013
GameStream client for Android
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:15 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Diego primarily contributed to the Moonlight Android client, implementing features related to game streaming functionality. They focused on integrating input from the Ouya controller, including button mappings and analog stick support. Further modifications were made to improve video streaming performance, and keyboard input was added.
nvidiaandroid-tv-appsandroidmoonlightandroid-app
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