Gabriel Hîrnea
Software Engineer at 8x8
Bucharest, Romania
Summary
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Top SchoolGabriel Hîrnea is a software engineer based in Bucharest with six years of hands-on experience building full-stack web and real-time video features at 8x8. He has driven notable open-source contributions to the widely used Jitsi Meet and lib-jitsi-meet projects, adding facial expression recognition, face landmarks, and speaker-stats enhancements that blend computer vision with real-time communication. Comfortable across front-end and back-end domains, he’s improved responsiveness, mobile handling, and low-level messaging while refactoring for maintainability. A lifelong tinkerer, Gabriel pairs his interest in game development and robotics with practical product work—earlier building an educational Unity 2D game—bringing both creativity and engineering rigor to multimedia and interactive systems.
6 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Bucharest
Github Skills (12)
jitsi10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
webrtc10
video-conferencing10
react10
facial-recognition10
typescript-types10
browser-support9
xmpp9
compatible9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jitsi/jitsi-meet
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
Jitsi Meet - Secure, Simple and Scalable Video Conferences that you use as a standalone app or embed in your web application.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:122 reviews, 74 commits, 114 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Gabriel primarily contributed to the implementation of facial recognition features and the integration of facial expressions within the speaker stats functionality. They worked on creating the facial expression recognition worker, integrating it with the existing application, and displaying the recognized expressions. Additionally, they addressed responsiveness issues and refactored code related to facial expression handling. Further contributions involved improving the speaker stats feature by addressing search functionality, adding a timeline of facial expressions, and refining the design.
securescalable-video-conferencesscalablejitsiweb-application
jitsi/lib-jitsi-meet
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
A low-level JS video API that allows adding a completely custom video experience to web apps.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 5 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Gabriel primarily contributed to adding and improving facial expression and face landmark features within the `lib-jitsi-meet` library. Their work involved modifications across multiple files, including adding new events and functionalities related to facial expressions in speaker statistics. They refactored existing code and added new endpoints and message handlers. Additionally, they improved mobile resolution handling, and updated browser detection.
apilevel-jsjavascriptjitsivideo-conferencing
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