Sherry W

United States

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Sherry W is a multidisciplinary researcher and developer with eight years of experience blending UX research, developer experience, and operations across tech and research institutions. She has run mixed-methods usability studies at Intel and Stadia, translating developer feedback into actionable documentation and product changes that improved tooling clarity and marketing content. Her background includes human factors work at NASA Ames and academic research in cybersecurity and education, where she designed studies, led teams, and co-authored peer-reviewed work. On the engineering side, she contributed to the widely used Intel Media Driver repository, making Linux-specific fixes and codec support adjustments that improved open-source build fidelity. Now pursuing a JD while bringing operational and client-relations experience from Relyon Pro, she combines rigorous empirical methods with hands-on technical problem solving. Colleagues appreciate her ability to bridge technical, research, and stakeholder perspectives to turn ambiguous problems into concrete solutions.

8 years of coding experience

7 years of employment as a software developer

Bachelor's degree, PSYCHOLOGY, Bachelor's degree, PSYCHOLOGY at University of Southern California

San José State University

Doctor of Law - JD, Law, Doctor of Law - JD, Law at Santa Clara University School of Law

Github Skills (6)

linux10

c-language10

driver10

video-encoding10

device-driver10

cprogramming-language10

Programming languages (3)

C++CHTML

Github contributions (5)

intel/media-driver

Apr 2018 - Jan 2023

Intel Graphics Media Driver to support hardware decode, encode and video processing.

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:38 releases, 26 reviews, 71 commits in 4 years 9 months

Contributions summary:Sherry primarily contributed to the Intel Media Driver project by making minor modifications and fixing issues. Their work includes addressing Linux-specific directory permission issues and filename changes related to command buffer dumps. They also updated code to correct features support for open-source builds by modifying codec support for VC1 decode, MPEG2 encode, and VP8 encode. Furthermore, the user has been involved in refactoring/reverting code changes.

Sherry-Lin/xlin16

Jan 2019 - Nov 2024

Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 11 months

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