Vicky Liu
Senior Software Engineer at Snowflake
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVicky Liu is a Senior Software Engineer at Snowflake with seven years of experience building high-performance backend systems and driver-level video processing features. She advanced from intern to senior engineer at Snowflake since 2020, bringing a pragmatic blend of production cloud engineering and low-level systems work. Her open-source contributions to Intel’s media-driver demonstrate hands-on expertise in GPU context management, secure HEVC decoding, and content protection interfaces—skills that bridge hardware-accelerated video pipelines and scalable cloud services. Based in California and trained in computer engineering at the University of Toronto, she combines academic rigor with production impact and a knack for surfacing system-level optimizations that aren’t obvious at first glance.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Computer Engineering at University of Toronto
Github Skills (8)
gpu-programming10
c-language10
driver10
video-encoding10
cprogramming-language10
graphic10
hevc9
linux8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
intel/media-driver
Jan 2019 - Jun 2022
Intel Graphics Media Driver to support hardware decode, encode and video processing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Vicky primarily contributed to the Intel Media Driver, focusing on enhancements and modifications related to hardware decode, encode, and video processing. Their work involved implementing and updating GPU context management for Video Processing (VP) and Content Protection (CP) features, specifically addressing aspects like Render Engine and RA mode. They also implemented new interfaces and calculations for CP commands, and made several changes to support secure HEVC decoding, including the addition of a new decodecp interface. These modifications reflect a strong emphasis on the integration and optimization of video processing functionalities within the driver.
projectceladon/media-driver
Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:6 commits in 11 months
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