Ludovic Fauvet
Senior Engineering Manager at VideoLAN
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolLudovic Fauvet is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Paris with 17 years of experience building high-performance backend platforms, low-level systems, and large-scale multimedia infrastructure. He has deep domain expertise in multimedia—streaming, network protocols, cross-platform development and UI—earned through a decade of contributions to VLC Media Player and leadership roles at VideoLAN. At Blockchain.com he progressed from Staff Engineer to Senior Engineering Manager, leading product and engineering efforts including debit card systems and platform scaling. He co-founded VideoLabs and STORM, built mirrorbits (a geographic load-balancer that has handled billions of VLC downloads), and managed VLC’s global distribution infrastructure serving over a million daily downloads. A hands-on engineer who also thrives in leadership, he combines systems-level rigor with product-oriented delivery and has a practical sense of humor about engineering costs.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Epitech
English, French
Github Skills (10)
javas10
android-development10
java10
ui-design9
video-player9
interface-design9
playback9
media-playback9
videojs9
jna9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mstorsjo/vlc-android
May 2011 - Apr 2014
A personal repo for work on vlc-android (not official)
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:259 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Ludovic primarily contributed to the Android-specific VLC media player application, implementing UI and functionality enhancements. Key contributions include integrating a native surface video output for improved performance and implementing the correct handling of the system's remote control functionality, including lock screen controls. They also added support for a secondary display/Miracast features and optimized the video display layout and display mode.
androidvlc
etix/goftp
Feb 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:20 commits, 24 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year
golangftpftp-client
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