Patrick Chin
Software Engineer at Cisco
London, England, China
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolPatrick Chin is a Senior Software Engineer at Cisco with a decade of experience building real-time media systems and performance-sensitive backend components. Based in London and holding a First Class Master's in Physics from UCL, he blends rigorous analytical training with practical engineering to optimize latency and stability in production systems. At Cisco since 2017, he focuses on real-time media pipelines and reliability engineering, often tackling edge cases that cause crashes or memory leaks. An active open-source contributor, he has improved robustness and multi-player control in the popular playerctl CLI for media players. Patrick is comfortable moving between low-level bug fixes and feature work, bringing a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach to complex distributed media challenges.
10 years of coding experience
University College London
English
Github Skills (9)
c1710
command-line-tool10
mpi10
error-handling10
c1110
cli10
debug9
memory-management9
debugging9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
altdesktop/playerctl
Aug 2017 - Nov 2017
🎧 mpris media player command-line controller for vlc, mpv, RhythmBox, web browsers, cmus, mpd, spotify and others.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to the command-line interface of the `playerctl` project. Their work involved implementing new features such as the ability to control all available media players and handling multiple players. They also focused on improving the robustness of the CLI tool by fixing memory leaks and addressing potential errors, such as handling misspelled player names and preventing segfaults. Their commits demonstrate a focus on extending functionality and improving the stability of the command-line tool.
climpvplayercontrollermpd-client
patrickchin/haru2-vercel
Feb 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:48 reviews, 128 PRs, 786 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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