Lydia Schiff
Software Engineer (L5) at Snap Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolLydia Schiff is a senior software engineer and tech lead with 11–12 years of experience building high-performance multimedia systems for mobile and real-time applications. She’s led Android engineering for large-scale A/V products at Discord (designing a video rendering library used by 100+ million users) and architected VSCO’s real-time photo/video processing framework combining Java/Kotlin/C++ with OpenGL and MediaCodec. Currently at Snap she focuses on cross-platform mobile ad rendering and performance for monetization, bringing deep expertise in rendering, encoding/decoding, RTC networking, and resource-constrained optimization. Her background in GPU-accelerated scientific computing and a math certificate underpin a pragmatic, performance-first approach to complex multimedia pipelines. Colleagues rely on her as the Android expert who makes ambitious media features run smoothly on "bad phones."
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Participant Oregon Programming Languages Summer School, Participant Oregon Programming Languages Summer School at University of OregonBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Github Skills (12)
android-studio10
android-gradle-plugin10
android9
mixpanel9
analytics-tracking9
renderscript8
sdk8
parallel-processing7
opengl-es6
aar6
parallel5
analytics4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lydia-schiff/hella-renderscript
Feb 2020 - Dec 2020
Hella-parallel processing with RenderScript on Android
Contributions:29 commits, 16 PRs, 34 pushes in 10 months
hellaparallelandroidparallel-processingrenderscript
lydia-schiff/hella-polyglot
Sep 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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