Thomas Inskip
Software Engineer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Inskip is a seasoned software engineer with over 30 years of experience building media and networking systems, currently engineering at Google from Seattle. He brings deep expertise in media packaging and demuxing—evidenced by notable contributions to the widely used shaka-packager project where he refactored MP4 handling and improved elementary stream parsing and H.264 byte-stream conversion. His career spans senior engineering roles at Widevine and early work on telecom and NASA contracts, combining low-level systems proficiency with large-scale product delivery. Known for reorganizing complex codebases to mirror upstream architectures (e.g., Chromium), he favors pragmatic refactors that enable long-term maintainability. Collected experience across embedded, backend, and media DRM stacks gives him a rare end-to-end view of content delivery pipelines.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Maryland
Github Skills (8)
c-language10
mp410
cprogramming-language10
h26410
decode9
decoder9
decoding9
deco9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
shaka-project/shaka-packager
Mar 2014 - Aug 2016
A media packaging and development framework for VOD and Live DASH and HLS applications, supporting Common Encryption for Widevine and other DRM Systems.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:64 commits, 10 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily focused on refactoring and reorganizing the `mp4` code, specifically moving the mp4-related code into a new "formats" directory to match the structure of the Chromium source tree. They also worked on audio and video elementary stream parsing code, enabling features such as the correct handling of ADTS headers and integrating the parsing code with the demuxing framework. Their contributions also include adding the capability to handle H.264 byte stream conversion to a unit stream format.
hls-streamwidevinevideohttp-live-streamingvod
tinskip/infnoise-openssl
Sep 2018 - Oct 2020
OpenSSL Engine for random number generation using the infnoise TRNG.
Contributions:17 commits, 9 PRs, 15 pushes in 2 years 1 month
trngrandom-numberopenssl
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