James Delaplane

• Technical lead for the software development kit (SDK) team for Kinesis Video Streams within AWS.
• Maintain legacy open source projects for uploading media to KVS, WebRTC & signaling.
• Planned, coordinated, and lead development for KVS Edge.
• Planned, coordinated, and contributed to development for KVS WebRTC ingestion.
• Worked directly with customers for both onboarding new customers and debugging production issues for current customers.

• Worked on an initiative to unify all of Ring's firmware business logic under a common runtime SDK with an abstracted HAL.
• Coordinated heavily with vendors in Taiwan, and teams in bay area, Los Angeles, the UK, and Taiwan.
• Designed, built, tested, and launched project Cocoa.
• Lead late stage development on the MT7686 (main processor) of Cocoa
• Lead firmware engineer for Ring's End to End Encryption project, Ring's #1 global priority in 2020.
• Designed, reviewed, implemented, and tested the E2EE implementation along with 7 other firmware engineers.
• Coordinated E2EE development and launch with various TPMs and the CTO, as well as engineers from backend, app development, and digital security.

• Worked on a newly Linux products based on Ambarella processors and SDK, and their many iterations that followed.
• Maintained the lifecycle of products used in millions of devices.
• Regularly debugged field issues with limited information
• Worked directly with QA and the CTO as the product went from 5k active users to 200k active users in a matter of months. More than 2 million at the time of my departure.

Developed an open source application for parsing Excel spreadsheets listing open source licenses and generating visual diagrams with Graphviz to illustrate dependencies.

Worked on a project related to mitigating man-in-the-middle attacks on Qualcomm devices