Alexey Gusev
Руководитель Разработки at Yandex
Moscow, Moscow City, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexey Gusev is a seasoned engineering leader with 12 years of experience, currently heading development at Yandex after rising through multiple engineering roles there. He combines hands-on full-stack development skills with team and delivery leadership, guiding complex projects at one of Russia’s largest tech companies. Alexey has a strong academic foundation from Moscow State University with both bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science. He contributes to open-source multimedia tooling, notably improving hls.js' Media Source Extensions integration and playlist parsing—work that benefits browser-based video playback at scale. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and detail-oriented, able to refactor legacy features while pushing API usability forward. He balances product-focused execution with low-level protocol and API expertise, an uncommon mix for leaders in large engineering organizations.
13 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Московский Государственный Университет им. М.В. Ломоносова (МГУ)
Github Skills (7)
html10
video-streaming10
mediasource10
javascript10
hlsl10
streaming10
ecmascript9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
video-dev/hls.js
May 2017 - Oct 2019
HLS.js is a JavaScript library that plays HLS in browsers with support for MSE.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 29 commits, 22 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Alexey primarily contributed to the `hls.js` library by implementing and refining its core functionality. They made additions to the SourceBuffer API checks and exposed the `observer.once` method to the public API, enhancing the library's interaction with the Media Source Extensions (MSE). Furthermore, the user addressed a JSDoc misprint and reworked the parsing of the master playlist, improving code quality and stability. Finally, the user refactored EXT-X-SESSION-DATA support.
hlsjsjavascripthlshtml5video
mad-gooze/video-upscale
Dec 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:49 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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