Kongqun Yang
Technical Lead Manager at Google
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKongqun Yang is a Technical Lead Manager at Google with 12 years of experience specializing in content protection and DRM, leading efforts on Widevine to secure playback across Chrome, Android, Chromecast and other consumer devices. He progressed from firmware engineering at Seagate to senior software and staff engineering roles before moving into management, blending deep systems-level expertise with people leadership. A hands-on engineer who still contributes to open source, he has improved media packaging and muxing in the widely used Shaka Packager project, including fixes for MP4/TS muxers and adding Dolby Vision support for H.265. Based in Kirkland, WA, he hires TVC Python developers and values practical coding skills alongside security-focused architecture work.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Cangnan middle schoolMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Engineering at National University of Singapore
Github Skills (9)
hlsl10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
mpeg-dash10
mp49
encode8
h2658
encoding8
video-encoding8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
shaka-project/shaka-packager
Aug 2013 - Jun 2021
A media packaging and development framework for VOD and Live DASH and HLS applications, supporting Common Encryption for Widevine and other DRM Systems.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 releases, 110 reviews, 821 commits in 7 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Kongqun contributed to the Shaka Packager project by implementing features related to media packaging and development framework. They primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the project's MPEG-4 (MP4) and MPEG-2 Transport Stream (TS) muxers. Additionally, they made code modifications to accommodate the requirements of content protection features, particularly those related to Widevine Common Encryption. Moreover, the user added support for Dolby Vision in H.265 streams.
hls-streamwidevinevideohttp-live-streamingvod
kqyang/dotfiles
Mar 2015 - May 2022
YADR - The best vim,git,zsh plugins and the cleanest vimrc you've ever seen
Contributions:2 PRs, 20 pushes in 7 years 3 months
zshrcvimohmyzsheverpowerline
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