Issac Gerges
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarIssac Gerges is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience who has held senior and principal engineering roles at Slack, InVision, and Atlassian and now serves as a Member of Technical Staff. He specializes in shipping production front-end experiences—contributing UI refactors and analytics to the widely used open-source video conferencing project Jitsi Meet—while driving engineering quality and cross-team knowledge sharing. Based in Asheville, NC, he combines pragmatic full-stack skills with a continual learning mindset and a focus on mentoring and collaboration. Outside of work he builds adventurous hardware projects like cell-phone-powered high-altitude balloons and microcontroller-driven go-karts, reflecting a taste for hands-on systems work and experimental problem solving. He holds a BS in Software Engineering and Information Systems from the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
html10
css10
javascript10
ui-d10
javascripts10
front-end-development10
frontend-development10
ui-design10
webrtc9
video-conferencing9
jitsi-meet8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jitsi/jitsi-meet
Aug 2015 - Sep 2015
Jitsi Meet - Secure, Simple and Scalable Video Conferences that you use as a standalone app or embed in your web application.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 6 PRs, 5 comments in 28 days
Contributions summary:Issac primarily focused on refactoring and enhancing the user interface elements of the Jitsi Meet application. Their contributions include modifying the toolbar by adding separators using CSS and removing unneeded containers. Further work involved setting up analytics tracking for user interactions with the toolbar and bottom toolbar. The user also updated the build process and configuration files.
securescalable-video-conferencesscalablejitsiweb-application
gerges/jitsi-meet
Aug 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:20 pushes, 6 branches, 1 comment in 1 month
jitsimeetswebrtc
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