Summary
Santosh Mahto is a software engineering consultant with 13 years of hands-on experience building and optimizing browser engines, multimedia pipelines, and web app frameworks using C/C++11, Chromium/WebKit, GTK and Qt. Based in Ranchi, he has contributed to high-impact projects for clients like Google (hardware-accelerated Chromium video on Amlogic), Facebook, Valve (SteamOS), Bosch and Canonical, often tackling hardware-accelerated video, virtual USB devices and performance-critical rendering work. His background includes committing to WebKit, developing Oxide for Qt-based platforms, and deep platform integration via libhybris and Wayland—skills that bridge low-level systems work and modern web UX. Colleagues rely on him for debugging complex media and rendering interactions across embedded Linux, RDK and ChromeOS ecosystems. He combines formal study in AI/ML with pragmatic embedded systems expertise, enabling a rare perspective on performance optimization informed by both algorithms and systems constraints.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Executive Post Graduate Programme Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Executive Post Graduate Programme Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence at International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore
B.E Computer Science & Engg, B.E Computer Science & Engg at Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
Master of Science - MS Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning, Master of Science - MS Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning at Liverpool John Moores University