Gianni Ferullo
Software Engineer at Giphy
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGianni Ferullo is a software engineer and architect with over a decade of experience building front-end web applications for mobile and desktop, currently shaping experiences at Giphy from San Diego. He specializes in React-driven UIs and has a 15-year background in front-end architecture, having led video platform design and implementation at MTV Networks. Gianni contributes to open-source tooling for WebGL and GLSL—improving stability, cleanup, and ES module support in the popular glslCanvas project—showing a hands-on commitment to graphics and web performance. His work reflects a practical blend of design and implementation: shipping robust render loops and build improvements that make shader integration easier for other developers. A University of Maryland IT graduate, he pairs deep front-end expertise with an engineer’s eye for resource lifecycle and build ergonomics. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic coder who favors durable, maintainable solutions over quick fixes.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at University of Maryland
Italian, French, Spanish, English
Github Skills (10)
webgl10
javascript10
canvas2d10
glsl10
shader10
canvasjs10
canvas10
fragment-shader10
esmodules9
rollupjs8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
patriciogonzalezvivo/glslCanvas
Oct 2017 - Jun 2018
Simple tool to load GLSL shaders on HTML Canvas using WebGL
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 12 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Gianni primarily focused on improving the robustness and functionality of the `GlslCanvas` tool. Their contributions include fixing issues related to the render loop, ensuring proper cleanup of resources during destruction, and improving the build process. They also introduced an ES module entry point, which is useful for integrating the library into other JavaScript projects. These changes improve the tool's stability and usability, making it easier to integrate and use GLSL shaders on the HTML Canvas.
webglcanvasglsl-sandboxjavascriptshaders
Giphy/giphy-js
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
Official GIPHY packages
Contributions:21 releases, 115 reviews, 806 commits in 3 years 11 months
giphy-sdksgiphygifs
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