Zachary Wiltshire
Server at Ventana Grill - Compass Heath
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZachary Wiltshire is a mechanically trained engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience who recently completed both a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Mechanical Engineering at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He led a multidisciplinary capstone team to design and FEA-validate a paratransit seating system, translating federal safety standards into practical designs and overseeing build and test phases. Alongside academic research improving chassis reliability, he contributes to open-source video and backend tooling—enhancing AV1/VP9/HEVC encoding workflows with audio extraction, Vapoursynth integration, and keyframe detection. Based in California, he pairs strong design and analysis capabilities with proven communication and multitasking skills developed through long-term client-facing work that generated over $1M in sales. He is seeking a challenging full-time role where he can apply structural analysis, system integration, and practical software-enabled tooling to complex mechanical problems.
11 years of coding experience
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
English
Github Skills (7)
video-encoding10
ffmpeg10
python10
rust9
h2659
dockers5
docker5
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
master-of-zen/Av1an
Oct 2020 - Feb 2021
Cross-platform command-line AV1 / VP9 / HEVC / H264 encoding framework with per scene quality encoding
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 6 commits, 6 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Zachary primarily focused on improving the project's functionality related to audio extraction and Vapoursynth support. Their contributions included modifying the FFmpeg command for audio extraction, implementing features for Vapoursynth integration, and adding keyframe detection. Additionally, they improved documentation and command-line argument descriptions to clarify Vapoursynth usage. The user also added the ability to pass frame counts to the x265 encoder.
hevcpythonh264videoscenes
adworacz/vapoursynth-mvtools
Jan 2023 - Aug 2024
Motion compensation and stuff
Contributions:30 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 7 months
compensationmotion
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