Brian Baldino
Principal Engineer at Cisco
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Baldino is a Principal Engineer with 12+ years building high-quality, production-grade video conferencing systems and media infrastructure, currently contributing to CPaaS and programmable video at Cisco and core Jitsi projects. He brings deep expertise in C++, WebRTC, SDP manipulation, and low-level networking—evidenced by hands-on fixes in usrsctp and major contributions across jitsi-meet, jibri, jicofo and lib-jitsi-meet. A pragmatic advocate for "doing things the right way," he emphasizes unit testing, logging, and maintainable code while also improving automated video QA (PSNR) and simulcast support. His career spans architecting WebRTC transitions, bridge and protocol work for multipoint telepresence, and shipping both backend and frontend media logic. Based in San Jose, he pairs systems-level debugging chops with a collaborative engineering style that surfaces subtle runtime issues before they reach users.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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Github Skills (50)
debugging10
debug10
xmpp10
javascript10
video-conferencing10
python10
back-end-development10
sctp10
testing10
hocon10
jitsi-meet10
multicasting10
360-video10
sdp10
jingle10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jitsi/jibri
Jan 2018 - Jun 2021
Jitsi BRoadcasting Infrastructure
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:51 reviews, 350 commits, 212 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Brian made several commits focused on refactoring the code to use a logger instead of `println`, enhancing the overall maintainability. They introduced a utility for managing the process output to improve logging. Further, they were involved in adapting the code to the requirements of the updated jibri iq flows.
broadcastingjitsiinfrastructureterraform
jitsi/jicofo
Feb 2017 - Feb 2021
JItsi COnference FOcus is a server side focus component used in Jitsi Meet conferences.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:144 reviews, 61 commits, 125 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the Jitsi Meet conference focus component. Their work includes implementing support for H264 video encoding, adding RTP stream ID header extensions, and refactoring code to support RID signaling. They also addressed recording and live streaming features, including YouTube broadcast ID support and session management enhancements. These changes improved video capabilities and conference session handling.
jitsiconferencesserver-sidemeetjitsi-meet
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