Claudiu Gheorghe
Member Of Technical Staff at Thinking Machines Lab
California, United States
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Top SchoolClaudiu Gheorghe is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 17 years of experience building high-performance distributed systems, real-time infrastructure and security-focused platforms. Based in California, he led the development and global operation of WhatsApp’s voice & video infrastructure and later managed application security efforts, combining hands-on C++ systems work with people leadership. As a founding engineer at Oscilar and now founder of Hypermedia Inc., he blends product-driven startup execution with deep expertise in load balancing, protocol design and reliability engineering. His open-source contributions include performance and security improvements to Facebook’s Proxygen HTTP libraries—work that helped production HPACK/HTTP2 deployments—highlighting a track record of shipping robust, bandwidth- and latency-optimized network software. Trained in distributed systems (VU Amsterdam), he pairs academic rigor with practical wins like patents and measurable production improvements.
18 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems, Masters, Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)POLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology
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Github Skills (6)
http10
gzip10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
hpack10
folly8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/proxygen
Nov 2014 - Sep 2015
A collection of C++ HTTP libraries including an easy to use HTTP server.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 1 comment in 10 months
Contributions summary:Claudiu primarily focused on improving the performance and stability of the Proxygen library. Their contributions included refactoring and optimizing the GzipHeaderCodec and HPACKCodec for HTTP header compression. The user also addressed potential vulnerabilities and improved the efficiency of integer encoding to enhance the overall robustness of the HTTP libraries. Further contributions involved addressing mobile build compatibility and refactoring the Huffman encoding/decoding API.
cppuse-http
claudiugh/Amstel
Oct 2010 - Mar 2011
Contributions:80 commits in 5 months
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