Claudio Cambra
Senior Software Engineer at VideoLAN
Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China
Summary
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Top SchoolClaudio Cambra is a Senior Software Engineer based in Hong Kong with five years of experience building cross-platform desktop and system integrations for macOS, Linux and iOS. He currently works on distributed file sync at Air and has driven major desktop client work at Nextcloud, including a macOS File Provider-based sync engine and significant refactors that removed crashes and improved stability. At VideoLAN he led macOS UX efforts for VLC, redesigning media library and playback components, and his open-source contributions include improving legacy-account import and sync behaviors for the widely used Nextcloud Desktop client. He combines low-level systems work (CoreAnimation/CoreAudio fixes, file locking and Finder Sync) with polished UX rewrites, making him comfortable across kernel-adjacent APIs and user-facing features. His background spans machine learning, technical writing and mentoring in Google Summer of Code, reflecting both a technical breadth and a knack for clear communication. Collected education in computer science and digital humanities underpins a pragmatic, user-focused engineering approach.
5 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
IGCSEs & A2 Levels, 4 As at A2 Level, 85% Average IGCSEs (11 subjects), IGCSEs & A2 Levels, 4 As at A2 Level, 85% Average IGCSEs (11 subjects) at St George's School of MálagaMaster's degree, Computer Science, GPA 3.72, Master's degree, Computer Science, GPA 3.72 at Peking UniversityCELTA, Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor, Pass, CELTA, Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor, Pass at International House LondonUniversity College London
English, Spanish, German
Github Skills (12)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
qt10
application9
platform-independent9
multiplatform9
web-application9
develop9
cross-platform9
user-interface8
software-design8
nextcloud6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
nextcloud/desktop
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
💻 Desktop sync client for Nextcloud
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 1527 reviews, 788 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Claudio contributed to the Nextcloud Desktop sync client, specifically focusing on enhancing the import process of legacy account configurations from older clients. Their commits introduced a new property to force a legacy import and added an application argument to force this legacy import functionality. Further contributions involved placing signals and slots for account manager in line with how other classes do it. They made additional improvements by refactoring existing parts.
cppnextcloudsyncc-plus-plusdesktop
claucambra/NextcloudFileProviderKit
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
Batteries-included package to build your own Nextcloud sync client for Apple platforms
Contributions:1 review, 99 PRs, 403 pushes in 11 months
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