Gustavo García
Partner & Co-Founder at LiveTok
Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area Spain
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Top SchoolGustavo García is a seasoned real-time systems architect and founder with 14 years of experience designing scalable video and cloud streaming infrastructures for products used by hundreds of thousands of viewers. As Principal Video Architect at Hopin and RingCentral and later co-founder of LiveTok.ai, he led large-scale conferencing and broadcast systems, migrated customers to in-house codecs, and pioneered on-device ML like noise suppression and virtual backgrounds. His work at Epic Games and Houseparty shaped Fortnite Voice and WebRTC integrations for social gaming, while contributions to prominent open-source projects such as mediasoup and coturn improved stability, congestion control, and TURN reliability. Comfortable from low-level protocol debugging to product-facing API design, he has repeatedly rescued quality and scalability in high-throughput media servers. Based in Madrid, he blends deep telecom roots (early WebRTC ports and MCU work at Telefónica) with entrepreneurial drive, now applying multimodal AI to make conversational voice CX feel human.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Telecommunications Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering at Universidad de ValladolidMaster's degree on Advanced Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree on Advanced Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia - U.N.E.D.
French, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (31)
ajax10
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congestion-control10
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nodejs10
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
coturn/coturn
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
coturn TURN server project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:75 reviews, 46 commits, 99 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Gustavo primarily contributed to the core functionality of the coturn TURN server. Their work includes fixing typos in documentation and code, merging branches, and implementing features related to Prometheus metrics, such as adding username labels. Furthermore, the user addressed memory management issues by fixing potential use-after-free vulnerabilities and added a basic test script. The user also addressed build and dependency issues.
turn-servernetworkingstunsctpserver
versatica/mediasoup
Mar 2017 - Jan 2023
Cutting Edge WebRTC Video Conferencing
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 12 commits, 21 PRs in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Gustavo made numerous contributions focused on improving the `mediasoup` WebRTC server. They addressed bugs, including fixes for buffer overflows in H.264 packet parsing and issues in the active speaker observer. The user also implemented new features such as adding packet loss statistics to the transport layer and optimizing congestion control algorithms. The user has also optimized the existing codebase by reducing redundancy.
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