Stefan Slivinski
Principal Architect at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStefan Slivinski is a Principal Architect with over 20 years of deep domain expertise in video compression, low-latency video communication, and high-scale cloud video services, currently shaping media strategies at Microsoft in the Greater Seattle area. He has a proven track record of solving extremely hard problems — from building the world’s first HD video conferencing codec to developing one of the lowest-latency game streaming systems. Stefan blends hands-on engineering with leadership, having led video teams across Microsoft, Logitech, LifeSize, and startups, and he emphasizes an intimate understanding of problems to find the best solutions. Comfortable moving between DSP-level algorithms and cloud-scale architectures, he repeatedly delivers products that push performance and reliability boundaries. Colleagues describe him as a technical mentor who fosters highly effective teams while staying deeply involved in architecture and implementation. Trained in Computer Systems Technology at BCIT, he pairs practical systems knowledge with decades of production experience in media and streaming.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
French, Italian, English
Github Skills (40)
development-kit10
setuptools10
windows10
linux10
cmake10
mixer10
visual-studio10
package-manager10
c-library10
cpp10
swig10
cross-platform9
janus9
obs9
obs-studio9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/ftl-sdk
Jun 2016 - Dec 2017
Software Development Kit for Mixer's FTL Protocol
Contributions:300 commits, 47 PRs, 261 pushes in 1 year 6 months
development-kitsoftware-development-kitftlmixer
mixer/janus-gateway
May 2016 - Mar 2018
Janus WebRTC Gateway
Contributions:1117 commits, 14 PRs, 1150 pushes in 1 year 10 months
janus-gatewaywebrtcgatewayjanus-webrtc-gatewaysctp
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