Tommy Kwan
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
Arcadia, California, United States
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Top SchoolTommy Kwan is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of documented professional experience and over two decades in engineering roles spanning embedded systems, FPGA and hardware design. He holds both BSEE and MSEE from USC and has deep domain expertise in video and broadcast technologies including MPEG-2/4, Dolby, ATSC, PSIP, SMPTE, SCTE and modern streaming protocols like HLS and DASH. Tommy has progressed from design engineering at KTech to principal engineering at DIRECTV, senior engineering at XUMO, and now contributes to Apple’s engineering efforts, bringing product-focused systems thinking to complex media pipelines. He is fluent in Verilog, C and C++ and regularly bridges hardware and software boundaries to deliver robust embedded and FPGA-based solutions. Known for turning standards-heavy specifications into production-ready designs, he combines protocol-level rigor with practical optimization for OTT and MPEG/IP workflows. Based in Arcadia, CA, he brings a rare blend of broadcast standards knowledge and hands-on silicon/firmware experience that accelerates media product development.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master Electrical Engineering, Master Electrical Engineering at University of Southern California
Github Skills (60)
validations10
validation10
implement10
sanitization10
validate10
javascript9
npm9
qubit9
sanitize9
react9
inbound8
flux8
android8
ios8
preact8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
qubitdigital/cse-finder
May 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:13 PRs, 23 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 5 months
QubitProducts/qubit-react
Mar 2016 - Sep 2017
A wrapper component for use with Qubit Experiences
Contributions:1 release, 79 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 5 months
experiencesqubitcehimplement
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