Philippe Elsass
Senior Staff Engineer at Warner Bros. Discovery
Rosenwiller, Grand Est, France
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Top SchoolPhilippe Elsass is a Senior Staff Engineer with 15+ years building and architecting front-end experiences for OTT/ VOD across web, mobile, connected TVs, consoles and Roku. He blends deep JavaScript/TypeScript expertise with niche BrightScript/Roku knowledge and a track record of pushing web-based TV clients (including WebGL) to their limits while scaling apps for massive audiences. A hands-on technical leader, he drives core libraries, developer experience and CI/Docker automation while mentoring teams and shaping cross-organizational strategy. His roots in French web agencies and early Flash work show long-standing UI craftsmanship, and he’s been contributing to open-source projects—from StageXL 2D rendering improvements to FlashDevelop editor features—long before GitHub’s heyday. Based in Grand Est, France, Philippe is as comfortable coding device-specific optimizations as he is liaising with manufacturers and product stakeholders to deliver measurable user impact.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Computer Science, Engineer's degree, Computer Science at Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard
French, English, Russian
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Github Skills (18)
develop10
haxe10
actionscript10
ide10
code-completion10
dart10
html8
xml8
build-automation8
csharp7
dotnet-core7
uilabel6
flash6
asp-net6
objective-c6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
fdorg/flashdevelop
Sep 2013 - Jan 2018
FlashDevelop is a free and open source code editor.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:591 commits, 186 PRs, 242 pushes in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Philippe primarily focused on contributing to the FlashDevelop code editor, making changes related to code completion features, UI improvements, and build process automation. They implemented fixes for various completion-related issues, including incorrect autocompletion, and added new features for handling completion events. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the project's build process and introduced changes for consistent formatting and handling of the code.
javascripteditoremacs-packagesmakecodecode-editor
bp74/StageXL
Mar 2013 - Aug 2013
A fast and universal 2D rendering engine for HTML5 and Dart.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Philippe primarily focused on implementing and refining the `MovieClip` class within the StageXL library. Their contributions involved porting the `MovieClip` functionality from CreateJS, addressing warnings, integrating frame rate control, and resolving retina display issues. The user also added a `ButtonHelper` class to support interactive elements within the library.
rendering-enginedartrendering2d-rendering-enginehtml5
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