Taylor Ralph
ASIC DV Engineer at Des-Case Corporation
Nashville Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTaylor Ralph is an experienced ASIC DV Engineer with over 16 years building FPGA, ASIC and software solutions for high-performance networking and audio-video systems, currently at Microsoft. He blends deep hardware bring-up and verification expertise with production Linux/embedded software—having authored bootloader, driver and kernel integrations for custom platforms and IoT gateways. Taylor is an active open-source contributor to projects like MythTV and FFmpeg, where he has improved audio/video decoding, A/V sync and playback internals. His background spans architecture-to-silicon work on multi-terabit network processors and hands-on FPGA prototyping, giving him a rare full-stack view of silicon, firmware and system software. Based in the Nashville area, he pairs pragmatic engineering with strong tooling and automation skills—often writing bespoke test frameworks and debug utilities to accelerate bring-up and validation.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Tennessee Technological University
Github Skills (13)
videojs10
media-playback10
deco10
dts10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
decode10
ffmpeg10
video-player10
playback10
decoder10
subtitle9
mpeg8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
MythTV/mythtv
Feb 2010 - Mar 2012
The official MythTV repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:151 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Taylor primarily contributed to the MythTV repository's audio/video processing and playback functionality. They addressed various audio decoding issues, including DTS and WMAPRO codec identification and adding support for new video formats. The user also refactored and optimized the video timestamp code, improved subtitle handling, and enhanced the video playback OSD and seeking capabilities. Their work involved significant interaction with the underlying media codecs and playback components.
mythtv
turtleletortue/android_kernel_retroid_pocket2
Oct 2011 - Oct 2011
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
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