Greg Kufera
Co-Founder & Advisor at Cinapse (YC W22)
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGreg Kufera is a founder and technical leader with a decade of experience building developer-facing tools and production workflows for film, TV, and mobile. As co-founder and former CEO of Cinapse (acquired by Wrapbook) he led the creation of an OS-like app that manages tens of thousands of production documents and daily workflows for Hollywood crews. He blends hands-on engineering—contributing iOS audio playback and recording fixes to the widely used Expo framework—with creative production expertise, having served as lead technical advisor on HBO’s Silicon Valley. Greg has launched and advised multiple startups across animation AI, crypto research, and media tech, and runs a consulting studio that has supported clients from networks to studios. Trained as a mathematician at Princeton, he combines rigorous analytical thinking with practical product-building instincts. An uncommon strength is his ability to translate on-set production constraints into scalable digital tools that filmmakers and engineers can both adopt.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics at Princeton University
English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Japanese
Github Skills (9)
objective-c10
ios10
avplayer10
react-native9
swift4
typescript4
typescripts4
react4
typescript-types4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
expo/expo
Feb 2017 - Aug 2017
An open-source framework for making universal native apps with React. Expo runs on Android, iOS, and the web.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:32 commits, 20 comments, 10 issues in 6 months
Contributions summary:Greg primarily contributed to the audio playback and recording functionality within the Expo framework. Their work focused on modifying the iOS audio API, integrating audio player controls, and implementing features related to audio recording. Key changes included adding playback rate controls, fixing fullscreen player dismissal, and addressing memory leaks within the audio system.
ios-androidiosmobileweexframework7
gkufera/onomatopoeia
Jul 2017 - Oct 2020
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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