CAPS Payroll
Entertainment payroll · Sole developer and rescuer
The engine that calculates entertainment residuals, rebuilt from scratch after both sources of truth for the union rules turned out to be wrong.
What was wrong
The localisation team needed to author subtitles against video, and the GPU encoding farm behind them was dying inside the codec and returning nothing usable — an operator could not tell a finished encode from a crashed one.
What I built
The subtitle authoring tool: master subtitle list beside a language list, cloning a master set into a language that has none, video playback with audio waveform for syncing, and placement inside title-safe and action-safe overlays. Wrote and repaired the encoding pipeline: a command-line encoder driving the vendor SDK and a manager that queued jobs across GPU machines, wrapped in error trapping.
What happened
Both delivered and in use. The encoder was proved against seven deliberate failure cases before it went back on the farm.