Giuseppe Samela
Software Engineer at Bitmovin
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolGiuseppe Samela is a software engineer based in Vienna with 9 years of experience specializing in video streaming and adaptive playback technologies. Currently on Bitmovin’s Web Player team, he focuses on debugging, feature development and testing for production-grade streaming SDKs. His background blends research and industry—he developed panoramic/360° encoding and presentation formats during academic fellowships and extended ExoPlayer and Shaka Player with features that were upstreamed into open-source projects. He has built end-to-end solutions including WebRTC ultra-low-latency delivery, a 3D playback layer with custom THREE.js shaders, and an iOS music player published on the App Store, demonstrating both systems-level streaming expertise and polished client-side product craft.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at Politecnico di BariMaster 2 IFI Ubinet, Master 2 IFI Ubinet at Université Nice Sophia Antipolis
Italian, English
Github Skills (53)
drm10
uitabbarcontroller10
mse10
fallback10
video-player10
playback10
player10
video-streaming10
vod10
streaming10
bitmovin-player9
offline-mode9
javascript9
html5-audio9
mpv9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wasp898/derecom-website
Apr 2020 - Feb 2024
Contributions:15 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 10 months
wasp898/giuseppesamela.com
Apr 2020 - Nov 2024
Contributions:81 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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