Sreerenj Balachandran
Sr Architect at Amazon Lab126
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolSreerenj Balachandran is a senior architect and open-source focused multimedia engineer with 25 years of experience, now based in Portland, Oregon and leading media architecture at Amazon Lab126. He has deep expertise in graphics, hardware-accelerated video decode/encode, and Linux/ChromeOS multimedia stacks from long tenures at Intel and Nokia, and is a maintainer and implementer across GStreamer, VA-API, libva and related projects. His work includes authoring an HEVC parser library, developing Intel VA-API drivers, and driving Chromium/ChromeOS multimedia integration—roles that blend low-level driver knowledge with cross-project system design. Comfortable operating at both hands-on implementation and architectural levels, he has a track record of upstreaming complex multimedia solutions and optimizing GPU/Wayland rendering pipelines. An engineer who reliably translates hardware capabilities into production-ready software, he brings uncommon depth in video pipeline internals and open-source stewardship.
25 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering, B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering at Govt Engineering College,Thrissur
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (45)
intel10
video-processing10
api10
video-recording10
gstreamer9
ipcamera9
acceleration8
java8
chrome-extension8
hardware7
chrome7
qualcomm7
hevc7
intel-media-sdk7
vaapi7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
01org/gstreamer-codecparsers
Apr 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 24 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
badparticularparserstestingmaster
sreerenjb/intel-vaapi-driver
Feb 2017 - Apr 2020
VA-API user mode driver for Intel GEN Graphics family
Contributions:51 pushes, 19 branches in 3 years 2 months
apidriverinteluser-apiandroid-ndk
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.