Habtom Giorgis
Senior Software Engineer at OnFire Lab
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHabtom Giorgis is a Senior Software Engineer and repeat founder with 11 years of experience building production systems, marketplaces, and developer-facing tooling across startups and media companies in New York. He combines hands-on Golang backend expertise—illustrated by work like Go bindings for FFmpeg and video transcoding services—with product-minded infrastructure and UX thinking to help early-stage startups move from POC to scale. As technical co-founder of a freight marketplace he integrated 12+ data sources, payments, geospatial services and automation, and at Insider led services for caching, syndication and content analysis. An active open-source developer and meetup organizer since his university days, he focuses on startups using technology to serve underserved communities. Outside work he’s an avid biker and traveler who brings practical investor and advisor perspective to technical roadmaps.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of AsmaraUniversity of Dubai
Github Skills (4)
video-encoding10
ffmpeg10
go10
360-video9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
giorgisio/goav
May 2015 - May 2022
Golang bindings for FFmpeg (This repository is no longer maintained)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 42 commits, 26 PRs in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Habtom primarily contributed to the development of Go bindings for FFmpeg. Their work focused on creating and modifying various package bindings, including `avcodec`, `avformat`, `avdevice`, and others, demonstrating an understanding of the FFmpeg library's structure and functionality. The commits involve creating methods, getters and other functionality and reflect a deep knowledge of FFmpeg's internal workings. The user also updated example files and added version information.
golanggolang-bindingsgovideoffmpeg
giorgisio/payeezy
Dec 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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