Harry Y
Senior Director, Engineering Services & Project Mgmt APAC Offices at BlackBerry QNX
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolHarry Y is a senior engineering leader with 25+ years in embedded software and 20+ years leading engineering support, project management and quality programs across automotive, medical, aerospace and telecom domains. Currently Senior Director for Engineering Services & Project Management at BlackBerry QNX, he has built and managed distributed APAC teams supporting complex customer deployments of OS, hypervisor, ADAS and car platforms. He blends hands-on embedded systems expertise (VxWorks, C/C++) and wireless communications with strong program delivery skills in PMP, Agile and CMMI-driven environments. Harry also contributes to open-source tooling for media processing—fixing subtitle extraction bugs and improving OCR resilience—showing a detail-oriented developer mindset alongside strategic leadership. Educated with an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, he is known for turning rigorous performance and release-test practices into repeatable, scalable delivery for global customers.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc Electrical Engineering, M.Sc Electrical Engineering at University of CalgaryB.Sc Telecommunication Engineering, B.Sc Telecommunication Engineering at Harbin Institute of Technology
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (17)
dvb10
dvb-t10
ocr10
c1110
c1710
ocra10
subtitle10
c-language9
cprogramming-language9
360-video8
image-processing8
teletext7
constants6
firebase6
android6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
CCExtractor/ccextractor
Dec 2017 - Feb 2018
CCExtractor - Official version maintained by the core team
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:37 commits, 28 PRs, 40 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Harry primarily contributed to the `ccextractor/ccextractor` project by fixing bugs and adding features related to subtitle processing. Their work included upgrading the `win_iconv` library, fixing issues with delay options, and addressing DVB subtitle extraction problems. The user also added a histogram tool and addressed a crash related to OCR when the input image was empty, improving the overall functionality and stability of the project.
ccextractorimagepythonrustteam-core
mira-screen-share/sharer
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
A screen-sharing / remote collaboration software written in Rust
Contributions:1 release, 35 reviews, 28 commits in 1 month
screencapturerustremote-collaborationscreen-sharingcollaboration
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