Ilya Melamed
Team Lead at StreamElements
Israel
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolIlya Melamed is a seasoned team lead and video technology expert with over a decade of hands-on experience building and scaling online video products, CDN integrations, and adtech systems. He conceived and led SE.Live (formerly OBS.Live), a plugin used on 400k+ desktops that bridges native C++/OBS APIs with rich JavaScript UIs, and has contributed meaningful fixes and features to the popular open-source OBS Studio ecosystem. His background spans end-to-end video pipelines—acquisition, processing, storage, delivery, monitoring and monetization—plus cloud migrations, large-scale data collection, and database optimization (MySQL/MS SQL). A pragmatic tinkerer who moves between low-level C/C++ and modern stacks (Go, TypeScript, React), Ilya thrives on turning complex streaming problems into reliable, customer-facing operations while mentoring engineering teams.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Electronic Music Production, Electronic Music Production at BPM – the sound and progressive music collegeProgramming, Programming at MAMRAMHighschool Graduate, Computer Science, Highschool Graduate, Computer Science at Yad Leibovitz
Russian, Hebrew, English
Github Skills (21)
c-language10
apidoc10
cefpython10
cefglue10
directshow10
c1110
cefsharp10
ui-design10
c1710
uid10
api10
front-end-development10
cprogramming-language10
obs-studio10
cpp8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
obsproject/obs-browser
Mar 2018 - Sep 2019
CEF-based OBS Studio browser plugin
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 15 PRs, 19 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Ilya primarily contributed to the OBS Studio browser plugin, addressing race conditions in the browser source listener and implementing the simulation of the Page Visibility API. The user's work involved modifying core components such as `browser-source-listener-base.cpp`, `browser-manager-base.cpp`, and `browser-app.cpp`. Additionally, they integrated the use of file URLs for local media access and mapped absolute URLs to file URLs to enable better support.
browser-pluginobs-studiocefc-plus-plusc
obsproject/obs-studio
Feb 2018 - Feb 2020
OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 7 commits, 19 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Ilya contributed to the OBS Studio project by implementing and modifying UI elements and APIs. They worked on enhancing the frontend API for deferring saves, adding functionality to add scene collections and set current scenes. The commits also involved integrating with signals for scene creation and modifying the directshow plugin to allow for synchronous device updates. These changes focused on improving the UI's synchronization and performance, and adding new features.
live-streamingobs-studioscreen-recordingcc-plus-plus
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