Gilles Khouzam
Software Engineer at LightSource
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarGilles Khouzam is a seasoned software engineer with 11+ years driving media and playback infrastructure across major platforms for companies like Meta, Amazon, Microsoft and now LightSource in Seattle. He specializes in video playback architectures, low-latency protocols and cross-platform player integrations, having led large upgrades for WhatsApp, Prime Video and the Android suite while contributing to Google’s ExoPlayer. At Microsoft he championed open source for Windows—leading projects such as Adaptive Cards, WinAppDriver, WSL and FFmpegInterop—and helped improve Windows support in upstream tools like CMake. Known for blending hands-on systems coding (including assembly/SIMD optimizations early in his career) with team leadership, he has a track record of shipping stable, high-performance media systems at scale. He also creates developer enablement resources, having defined and taught a Video Introduction course to onboard engineers at Meta. Practical, curious and platform-minded, he excels at translating complex media requirements into maintainable, production-grade solutions.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (96)
xaml10
windows10
bots10
cmake10
media-player10
visual-studio10
extensible10
exoplayer10
appium10
wpf10
cpp10
jetpack10
windows-application10
linux10
editor10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
khouzam/youmail
Oct 2018 - Oct 2022
A .NET client library for YouMail
Contributions:1 PR, 25 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 11 months
client-librarydotnetcsharp
khouzam/configs
Apr 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:152 pushes, 25 branches, 1 tag in 2 years 11 months
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