I am available for contract work.

I have 10+ years of experience coding and shipping commercial mobile apps on the iOS and Android platforms, and 15+ years experience coding and shipping software on the Windows desktop platform. I wrote a complete native, drawing-optimized C/C++ 2-D/3-D OpenGL-based windowing and UI toolkit from scratch to support easy cross-platform app development on all three platforms.

I have extensive experience with software internationalization (i8n) issues ranging from proper coding practices to crafting Unicode-compliant APIs to text shaping and font rendering of complex scripts like Thai and Arabic.

I have 25+ years of experience in the area of audio, video, and synchronization. I can write code or provide your company with training or consultation in areas such as:

• Robust, software-only solutions to difficult synchronization problems such as:
  • audio/video synchronization
  • frame-accurate machine/VTR control interface with legacy video systems
  • synchronization over unpredictable networks
• Conversion, reading, or writing of standard audio and video file formats
• Design and configuration of desktop systems and software for high-throughput applications such as uncompressed SD/HD video disk I/O.
• Optimized software image and audio processing.
• Drivers and library-level components for video and audio I/O hardware

I also have years of commercial experience designing and deploying websites and web applications, from site layout (CSS/HTML) to server and client-side programming (several languages), all the way to large-scale server farm network architecture and load balancing.

You are welcome to view my resume (PDF, 23k; download Adobe Reader here). Contact me for info about more recent mobile app expertise.

Please contact me by email:

chris@pirazzi.net
http://lurkertech.com
656 Fremont St.
Menlo Park, California, USA
94025