Michael Katz
Software Engineer at Google
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Katz is a software engineer with seven years of experience building media, camera, and embedded systems across top-tier tech companies including Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. Currently on Android Media Solutions at Google, he specializes in playback and codec integration, having contributed to Jetpack Media3/ExoPlayer work to improve Dolby Vision handling and robust track selection. His background spans camera OS at Microsoft and machine learning infrastructure at Alexa, giving him a strong systems-to-application perspective on performance and reliability. Early work in automotive controls and a student-built solar race car battery and telemetry system show a practical hardware-software fluency that informs his approach to media and device integration. He combines rigorous engineering with a history of shipping production fixes and tests, and brings a pragmatic focus on compatibility and graceful fallbacks across devices. Based in London, he pairs large-company experience with hands-on open-source contributions to widely used Android media libraries.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Michigan
Github Skills (20)
kotlin10
uitest10
compose-web10
compose10
java10
decoding10
media10
javas10
media-player10
android10
android-compose10
composeforweb10
exoplayer10
ui-testing10
test-automation10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
androidx/media
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Jetpack Media3 support libraries for media use cases, including ExoPlayer, an extensible media player for Android
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:4 releases, 25 reviews, 21 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Michael contributed to the `androidx/media` repository, which focuses on media libraries for Android. Their work involved modifying the `MediaCodecVideoRenderer` to handle Dolby Vision content more effectively, incorporating checks for display support and fallback mechanisms. Furthermore, the user implemented changes to the `DefaultTrackSelectorTest` and `MediaCodecVideoRendererTest` to ensure proper track selection and decoder support based on the display's capabilities. The user also addressed a bug in `MediaController` to return the last estimated position while paused.
jetpack-media3casesplayerexoplayeruse-cases
haixia-meta/media
Oct 2023 - Nov 2023
Jetpack Media3 support libraries for media use cases, including ExoPlayer, an extensible media player for Android
Contributions:9 pushes in 9 days
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