James Russo
Bio
Engineering lead for HyperFrames. Currently at HeyGen building the future of video storytelling, Previously at Brex
Session (1)
James Russo is a senior software engineer at HeyGen and a lead maintainer of HyperFrames, an open-source HTML-to-video rendering framework (~29.5k GitHub stars) that powers AI-generated video composition at HeyGen. Attending his session offers a practical look at how modern AI agents can compose and render video programmatically, a high-signal topic at the intersection of agentic workflows and video infrastructure.
GitHub
@jrusso1020- jrusso1020/alpaca_elixir★ 32Alpaca API Elixir client wrapper.
- jrusso1020/video-understand-skills★ 10Skills to help agents understand videos.
- jrusso1020/quick_api★ 0An Elixir library for quickly creating Elixir wrappers for RESTful CRUD APIs.
- heygen-com/hyperframesorg★ 29,478Write HTML. Render video. Built for agents. Open-source framework powering AI video composition at HeyGen; jrusso1020 is the #2 contributor and production contact.
Recent writing (4)
- Coding With LLMs in 2026: The Model Matters More Than the Prompts · blog · Jan 2026
- Strong Opinions, Loosely Held: A Developer's Guide to AI Hype · blog · Oct 2025
- How I Use LLMs to Write the Majority of My Code · blog · Sep 2025
- How Decision Matrices Create Better Engineering Decisions · blog · Nov 2025
Public activity researched automatically · as of Jun 2026