Hristo Terezov
Principal Software Engineer at 8x8
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHristo Terezov is a Principal Software Engineer in Austin with 13 years focused on real-time communications, video conferencing and full-stack systems engineering. He has driven core features and platform improvements at 8x8 and Atlassian and is a long-time contributor to the open-source Jitsi ecosystem, working across front-end UI, back-end media pipelines and Electron desktop integrations. His work spans low-level media statistics, RTP/RTCP handling and scalable SFU components as well as pragmatic UI fixes that improve usability in production video apps. Comfortable in Java, JavaScript/React and C/C++, he bridges protocol-level engineering with user-facing experience and test automation. Colleagues rely on him for architecture changes that enable reuse (e.g., splitting Jitsi Meet into core and UI) and for translating complex multimedia requirements into robust implementations. He pairs a strong academic background in logic and algorithms with hands-on contributions to one of the most widely used open-source video conferencing stacks.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Logic and Algorithms, Master's degree, Logic and Algorithms at Sofia University St. Kliment OhridskiNational High School of Mathematics "Akad. L. Chakalov"Software engineering, Software engineering at Sofia High School of Mathematics
English, Bulgarian
Github Skills (30)
xmpp10
javascript10
selenium10
video-conferencing10
electron10
user-interface10
selenium-ide10
java10
srtp10
javas10
front-end-development10
webtest10
performance-monitoring10
webrtc10
rtp10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jitsi/jitsi-meet
Jun 2014 - Jan 2023
Jitsi Meet - Secure, Simple and Scalable Video Conferences that you use as a standalone app or embed in your web application.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:831 reviews, 1000 commits, 984 PRs in 8 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Hristo primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Jitsi Meet application, focusing on UI enhancements and bug fixes. They made changes to JavaScript (conference.js) and CSS (conference.js), and occasionally modified the React components (UI, LargeVideo, RemoteVideo, Thumbnail, etc) to improve the user interface. Their commits indicate a focus on resolving visual bugs and improving the usability of the application, such as fixing icon display issues and adapting the UI to screen-sharing use cases.
securescalable-video-conferencesscalablejitsiweb-application
jitsi/jitsi-meet-torture
Jan 2015 - Jul 2021
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:33 reviews, 37 commits, 29 PRs in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Hristo primarily contributed to the testing framework of the Jitsi Meet Torture repository. Their commits focused on fixing and improving existing tests, specifically addressing issues with JavaScript code and test functionality. The contributions include adding new tests for the start muted feature and modifying existing tests related to audio/video muting, ensuring proper functionality. The user also updated the toolbar button IDs and implemented a test for max users limit in conference.
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