Ismail Rebah

Plasma is a planning tool that started as a proof of concept and ended up being a major project. The idea was to create a platform to allow workers and managers from different teams to plan activities together and organize the work lifecycle in order to close New Zealand's roads for the least amount of time possible for maintenance and small projects.

I was the project's technical lead and was involved in the day-to-day tasks in both the UI and the API.

The project helped save hundreds of thousands of dollars by providing visibility on the tasks that were non-existent before and allowed a drastic reduction in the number of times the roads were closed.

Video Fragmenter was a simple project in its essence but got an added complication when I discovered that the requirement was to process 360º videos coming from a go pro with a proprietary format.

The idea was that given a sequence of 4-hour videos and a document with times in Unix timestamp format, I had to create 10 seconds video clips around the time provided, including around 5-sec centered in the time provided.

The complication was not only in extracting the frames but also in converting the absolute time, the Unix timestamp, into a relative time inside the video. Also, to find the frames of interest, the video sequences needed to be first joined and then cut.

Finally, with a little bit of scripting, the project was a success, and I saved a few GB in each run. The script was ingesting multiple 4GB videos and producing a dozen of 7MBs clips.