About

George Politis is a Senior Software Engineer with a wealth of experience in component-based design, distributed systems, and real-time communications. He has spent the past 10 years working in the field, with a focus on media routing features and optimizing media flow in video conferences. Currently, George is pursuing a PhD degree in computer systems networking and telecommunications. George's expertise lies in his ability to implement adaptive Last-N, adaptive simulcast, and adaptive temporal scalability, as well as improving bandwidth probing mechanisms for faster and more accurate bandwidth estimations. He has worked for several companies in the past, including Atlassian and Blue Jimp, where he added RTCP termination and simulcast to the Jitsi Videobridge. He also added Firefox support in Jitsi Meet, implementing a middle layer (sdp-interop) that offers interoperability between Plan Unified and Plan B. George's education background includes a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Franche-Comté, University Degrees in Software Engineering and Mathematics from the University of Rennes 1, and an Honours Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the same university. He also has a background in Physics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. George's tech stack includes software engineering, JavaScript, NodeJS, Java, and C. He has 13.96 years of relevant experience in the field, making him a valuable asset to any team.