Summary
Royd Amias is a Principal Release Developer with nine years of formal experience and a long history of hands-on engineering across QA, release management, and DevOps in media, advertising, and enterprise networking. He has led and scaled release and QA teams at companies like Bytemobile/Citrix, Yahoo!, Pluto TV, and Oracle, turning test automation and risk mitigation into reliable product-launch engines. Royd’s technical toolkit spans Perl, Python, JavaScript, Bash, C/C++, Java and cross-platform systems testing, with deep domain knowledge in VOD streaming, multimedia encodings, and QoE/QoS for mobile and automotive features. He’s known for building skunk-works R&D labs and remote offices with minimal oversight, contributing to breakout products that drove major revenue and acquisitions. Organized, punctual and resilient under pressure, he blends standards-driven process work—auditing, documenting and metric reporting—with continued hands-on test and release engineering. An uncommon strength is his ability to move fluidly between low-level embedded and PCB concerns up through large-scale distributed test automation and release orchestration.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electronic Engineering Technology, Bachelor’s Degree, Electronic Engineering Technology at DeVry University
French, Spanish, English