Eric Tang
Co-Founder at Daydream
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Tang is a seasoned technical entrepreneur and co-founder with 14 years of experience building scalable video streaming and data infrastructure systems from the ground up. As founder/CTO at Livepeer and creator of Livepeer Studio, he has led development of an open-source Go implementation for live transcoding and streaming protocols (RTMP, HLS) that powers cost-efficient, production-grade video infrastructure. His work spans backend systems, video cache design, transcode and playlist management, and developer-focused platform products that have driven meaningful cost savings for customers. Earlier roles founding Wildcard and contributing engineering leadership at data-driven startups gave him deep experience in data pipelines, web crawling, and API-first product design. Based in New York, he combines hands-on low-level systems engineering with strategic product vision and a knack for turning complex media problems into developer-friendly platforms. An under-the-radar strength is shipping highly optimized, hardware-aware encoding stacks that bridge software, hardware, and decentralized technologies.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.S / M.S Electrical and Computer Engineering Computer Science Business Administration, B.S / M.S Electrical and Computer Engineering Computer Science Business Administration at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (4)
networking10
go10
json9
video-processing8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
livepeer/go-livepeer
Jun 2017 - Jun 2022
Official Go implementation of the Livepeer protocol
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 releases, 508 commits, 208 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Eric's contributions center around the development of core backend functionality for the Livepeer project. The commits demonstrate the implementation of streaming protocols, including RTMP and HLS, as well as network communication and message handling. The user was also involved in creating the foundational structure for a video cache, which indicates experience with efficient video data management and retrieval. Further, the user was involved in the configuration and application of Transcode and Playlist managers, along with a focus on the details of the underlying data models.
golangethereumblockchainlivepeerbroadcasting
livepeer/livepeer-demo-app
May 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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