Felipe Knorr Kuhn

From the TV video canvas to Netflix Live. Los Gatos, California

• TVUI Video: immersive and interactive experiences around the video canvas, including merchandising, previews, seamless post-play, UI audio, and updatable splash-screen animations
• Special takeovers: Spookyflix for Halloween, the Roma UI treatment, the immersive experience for Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, and the Lost in Space 3D billboard
• Alexa voice integration, with an automation framework that used voice synthesis to measure end-to-end title launches and navigation
• TVUI Core: modernized automation and tooling, and coached teams on quality and testing
• Live: test lead across all platforms for the launch of Netflix Live and the features that followed, including real-time voting, live chapters, the NFL Christmas games, and inline UI that updates with a title’s schedule and state
• Built the Live automation strategy around fake live streams, wrote hands-on automation for TV, and built infrastructure that unblocked every partner developing and testing real-time updates, voting, and chapters
• Spoke at Applitools’ “Back to the Future of Testing” on how software testing keeps evolving

Bridging the whole company, from firmware to customer support. San Mateo, California

• Shipped the Tile Mate, Tile Slim, and Tile Pro products
• Built physical automation for the Bluetooth trackers, and tested features like Smart Alerts
• Validated firmware fixes in extreme weather, and characterized device range in real-life scenarios during the initial hardware design phase
• Inventor on US patent 11,968,321, “Task completion in a tracking device environment”: a scavenger hunt built from tracking devices

From Windows 8 apps to a rebuilt Yahoo Search. São Paulo, then Sunnyvale, California

• Built the first automation framework for the new Windows 8 Metro apps, open sourced as RainbowDriver, with a continuous integration pipeline running on real devices
• Reinvented how Yahoo Search tested and automated result evaluation for the new knowledge-card results and A/B experiments
• Q4 2011 “You Rock!” award with the Yahoo Profile team
• 2013 “Super Star Team Award” with the Yahoo Mail Mobile team, for the Quattro launch: one global release across Android, iOS, Windows 8, and desktop

An agile quality group for citizen-facing systems. Porto Alegre, Brazil

• Web test automation with Selenium, TestNG, and ReportNG
• Spoke at Agile Denver (2010) and gave a CAST 2011 lightning talk, "Bug or feature: the importance of being context driven"
• Published articles on test automation in testing magazines

Various roles across Porto Alegre’s software industry. Porto Alegre, Brazil

• Six years in a range of roles that taught me how software gets built, before I specialized in how it breaks.

Documentation, code snippets, reference frameworks, and community support

• I built test automation on open source tools like Selenium, Watir, TestNG, and ReportNG, and gave back with documentation, code snippets, reference frameworks other teams could start from, and answers for other testers in the community.

Quality and release infrastructure for mempool.space

• Laid the foundation for backend unit tests and grew the Cypress end-to-end suite across Bitcoin, Liquid, and mining views
• Coverage reports on every pull request, and a way to run the e2e suite against any branch or PR

Hardening Bitcoin open source with AI

• Published the target-selection strategy and a scope for each project
• An AI-driven loop that investigates issues and proposes hardening, refined on each project and carried to the next

Parser hardening and code review

• Opened a pull request that makes the SettingsQR, sign-message QR, and PSBT parsers fail closed on malformed input instead of crashing, with unit tests
• Reviewing pull requests from other contributors

Private security report

• Zeus is an open-source, self-custodial Bitcoin and Lightning wallet for iOS and Android. I reported an issue to the maintainers privately. The details stay with them, which is how disclosure should work.