Federico Hlawaczek
Director Of Engineering at LinkedIn
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolFederico Hlawaczek is a Director of Engineering with 14 years of experience building and scaling media infrastructure for top consumer platforms, currently leading LinkedIn’s Media Infrastructure organization from Sunnyvale. He architects systems that power end-to-end media lifecycles—ingestion, encoding, fingerprinting, understanding, compliance and playback—for images, VOD, live video, documents and conferencing across client platforms. Previously he led video infrastructure at Instagram and improved encoding systems at YouTube, delivering measurable efficiency gains and launching new product capabilities like 1:1 meetings and Stories. As LinkedIn’s Open Source Program Co-Chair he shapes company-wide OSS strategy while maintaining hands-on technical leadership and roadmapping for media services. He combines engineering depth in codecs and distributed systems with product-facing experience and a track record of growing specialized teams and shipping cross-platform media features. Unusually for an engineering director, he also has entrepreneurial and teaching roots—co-founding startups and lecturing in computer science—bringing both operational rigor and a developer-mentor mindset.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Professional Certificate Program in Strategic Technology Roadmapping and Innovation Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, Professional Certificate Program in Strategic Technology Roadmapping and Innovation Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyEngineer's degree Computer Engineering, Engineer's degree Computer Engineering at Universidad Nacional de Tucumán
Spanish, English
Github Skills (8)
asynchronous-javascript9
templating8
asynchronous6
browser6
async6
javascript5
facebook2
django2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
linkedin/dustjs
Jul 2023 - Jul 2023
Asynchronous Javascript templating for the browser and server
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push in 1 day
asynchronousbrowsertemplatingjavascriptasynchronous-javascript
jgorset/fandjango
Feb 2012 - Feb 2012
Fandjango makes it really easy to create Facebook applications with Django
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
djangoreallyfacebook
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