Summary
Maurice Penners is a Senior Development Engineer based in Mountain View with over 15 years of deep expertise architecting hardware/software solutions for real-time video systems. He has repeatedly delivered production video transcoding and processing platforms across SoC, FPGA, VLIW/DSP and GPU architectures, including work that powers cloud instances and Emmy-awarded transcoding products. Maurice blends algorithmic depth in codecs (H.264, HEVC, AV1) and ML-driven quality improvements with hands-on hardware/software co-design and HLS-based FPGA IP development to shrink cost, latency and bandwidth footprints. He excels at mapping complex video algorithms to constrained embedded and datacenter platforms, often trading flexibility for major gains in performance and silicon cost. Comfortable at both roadmap and low-level implementation, he routinely engages customers and commercial teams to align features with real-world deployment constraints. A practical innovator, he has translated academic-grade algorithms into scalable, deployed systems used on AWS and in commercial products.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Engineering - EngD Software Technology, Doctor of Engineering - EngD Software Technology at Eindhoven University of Technology
English, Dutch, German