julusian

Funding Links: https://github.com/sponsors/Julusian

Name: Julian Waller
Location: Birmingham, UK
Company: @SuperFlyTV @Bitfocus
Kind: user
Followers: 171
Following: 4
Total stars: 411
Repositories count: 180
Created at: 2022-11-02T16:37:29.402Z
Updated at: 2025-06-29T21:34:51.987Z
Last synced at: 2025-06-29T21:34:51.986Z

GitHub Sponsors Profile

Hey, I'm Julian.
I am professional software engineer, writing open source software both at work and in my free time.
Most of my code is Typescript for node.js, including a bunch of C++ native modules.
My main focus is on software to aid in live stream and broadcast production.

I have spent countless hours working towards a complete cross-platform implementation of the Blackmagic ATEM Protocol
I am a core maintainer of Bitfocus Companion
I maintain a few popular companion device integrations, including:

Blackmagic ATEM
Behringer X32

I maintain various libraries for using hardware panels in Node.JS and the browser. These are primarily used by Bitfocus Companion, but also by others. These include:

Elgato Stream Deck
Loupedeck
Blackmagic Controllers

I try to help out other open-source libraries where possible, and try to provide a PR along with a bug report. I have helped convert node-hid and others to be Node-API based libraries, greatly streamlining their use for others. In some cases the original maintainers are unavailable so I am maintaining a fork instead, and happily accept contributions to improve upon them.

My hope is that Github Sponsors will allow me to provide better value to users of my libraries and applications.
A majority of the projects use hardware that isn't cheap. I have a small set of hardware that I use to test with, but as new products are released it is hard to test or implement support for features that are only available on newer models.
It will also help motivate me to fix those minor issues that aren't a big deal but can be a bit annoying. With so many projects to keep an eye on it is very easy to get lost in the ones where I have ideas for new and exciting things, so some help to check back in on everything else is appreciated.
I find that so much of the npm ecosystem is made up of packages that have been abandoned, and perhaps unnecessary but are being used regardless. I want to avoid this happening to anything of mine that is still useful to someone.