Gabriel Hege
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, HHI
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolGabriel Hege is a research software engineer with 11 years of experience blending academic rigor and practical systems work at institutions like Fraunhofer HHI and Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. Based in Berlin, he specializes in low-level media processing and codec integration—his open-source contributions include adding VVC support and bitstream-level parsers to the widely used mp4box.js project. Trained in bioinformatics (M.Sc., Universität Hamburg) with a B.Sc. in chemistry, he brings a multidisciplinary approach to solving complex parsing and data-processing problems. Comfortable operating at the intersection of research and production, he excels at implementing precise, bit-level algorithms that bridge standards and real-world media tooling.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Chemie, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Chemie at Freie Universität BerlinMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Bioinformatik, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Bioinformatik at Universität Hamburg
German, English
Github Skills (4)
javascript10
bit10
bitwise10
file-parsing10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
gpac/mp4box.js
Jun 2021 - Oct 2021
JavaScript version of GPAC's MP4Box tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR in 3 months
Contributions summary:Gabriel's contributions center around implementing VVC (Versatile Video Coding) support within the MP4Box.js library. They focused on parsing and processing VVC configuration data, adding code for sample entries. This included implementing the `vvcC` box parser. Their work involved bit-level manipulation, parsing bitstreams, and integrating the new video codec into the MP4Box framework.
gpacjavascriptmp4boxaudio
fraunhoferhhi/vvdecWebPlayer
Oct 2021 - Oct 2022
A minimal proof-of-concept VVC player for the web using WebAssembly
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 1 year
h266emscriptenmp4webassemblyvvc
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