Nicolas Dufresne is a Principal Multimedia Engineer at Collabora. Based in Montréal, he was initially a generalist developer with a background in STB development. Nicolas began contributing to the GStreamer Multimedia Framework in 2011, adding infrastructure and primitives to support accelerated upload of buffers to GL textures. Today, Nicolas is actively involved in both the GStreamer and Linux Media communities to help create a solid support for CODECs on Linux.