Thilo Borgmann
Co-Founder And COO at FFmpeg.org
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolThilo Borgmann is a Co-Founder and COO with 13 years of software engineering experience, best known as a long-term FFmpeg developer and maintainer specializing in lossless audio coding, video decoding and filtering, EXIF metadata, and WebP animation/video. Based in Berlin, he bridges product and low-level multimedia engineering, applying deep system API expertise on macOS/iOS for capture and filtering as well as DASH/HLS adaptive streaming. His research background from Technische Universität Berlin informs strengths in 3D reconstruction, view synthesis and broader computer vision problems, giving him an edge when solving complex media pipeline challenges. An active contributor and program administrator in Google Summer of Code (mentor 2015–2017, 2024; admin 2018–2025), he has a proven track record mentoring successful student projects since 2009. As COO of FFlabs since 2019 he combines operational leadership with hands-on open-source development, enabling small teams to ship robust multimedia tooling. Colleagues cite his rare combination of research rigour and practical engineering that consistently reduces media processing complexity in production systems.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Diplom-Informatiker, Computer Science, Diplom-Informatiker, Computer Science at Technische Universität Berlin
German, English
Github Skills (27)
rtsp10
h26410
h26510
matroska10
rtmp10
mixer10
ffmpeg10
mpeg10
audio10
fft10
transcoding10
mp410
webm10
hevc10
multimedia10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
thiloborgmann/FFmpeg
Jan 2015 - Jun 2024
Contributions:129 pushes, 25 branches, 6 comments in 9 years 6 months
ffmpegvideosource-git
thiloborgmann/nvim_config
Feb 2023 - Jan 2025
A launch point for your personal nvim configuration
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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