Pawel Domas
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPawel Domas is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of deep expertise building and scaling real-time video and conferencing systems, currently at Datadog in the Austin area. He has been a hands-on leader who architected and shipped large-scale WebRTC infrastructure—most notably extensive contributions across the famous open-source Jitsi ecosystem used by millions. Pawel blends full-stack skills (JS/React/React Native) with back-end systems engineering in Java/Kotlin, Kubernetes and XMPP, and has driven cross‑team improvements like MSK/Kafka enhancements and WebSocket migration with stream management. He’s shipped client and server-side media features including SCTP data channels, simulcast, AV1 support and advanced session management, and has a track record of fixing subtle protocol and concurrency bugs. Comfortable mentoring teams and improving release and interview processes, he pairs hands-on coding with operational know-how and open-source collaboration. An early maker and freelancer, he also brings low-level systems experience from PLCs and embedded protocols—helping him bridge hardware, networking and cloud services.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Science (BS) at Bialystok University of TechnologyMaster's degree, Master's degree at Jagiellonian University
Polish, English
Github Skills (46)
dependency-management10
jitsi10
xmpp10
javascript10
mobile-development10
react-native10
webdriver10
selenium10
back-end-development10
sctp10
image-processing10
testng10
jitsi-meet10
websocket10
selenium-ide10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jitsi/lib-jitsi-meet
Aug 2015 - Dec 2022
A low-level JS video API that allows adding a completely custom video experience to web apps.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:209 reviews, 510 commits, 363 PRs in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Pawel primarily focused on improving the code quality of a low-level JavaScript video API. They addressed a variable scope issue within the JingleSessionPC class. They also contributed to the addition of token-based authentication, implemented the ability to handle transport-replace messages, and improved the session management logic. The user also created new features like setting the maximum video frame height.
apilevel-jsjavascriptjitsivideo-conferencing
jitsi/jicofo
Nov 2014 - Jan 2023
JItsi COnference FOcus is a server side focus component used in Jitsi Meet conferences.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 reviews, 501 commits, 215 PRs in 8 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Pawel's contributions focused on enhancing the Jitsi COnference Focus server-side component. Their work involved adding features like simulcast support and conference configuration options. Code changes included modifications to Java files, suggesting work within the server-side logic of the Jitsi Meet application, likely involving networking and real-time communication protocols.
jitsiconferencesserver-sidemeetjitsi-meet
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