Evan Burton
Product Manager at Apple
Cupertino, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Burton is a geospatial product manager with nine years of experience building location-based products at Apple, grounded in an MS in Geographic Information Science and a background in transportation analytics. He blends hands-on data engineering—designing ETL pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and spatial databases—with product skills like UI prototyping, map visualization, and API development to turn complex vehicle and sensor datasets into usable products. His work at NREL and the Transportation Secure Data Center demonstrates deep experience with high-resolution mobility data, privacy-aware data distribution, and scalable data warehouses. Evan also contributes as a full-stack developer to notable open-source projects like hls.js, improving media playback features such as HDR/SDR selection and subtitle handling, signaling a practical fluency across web video and geospatial domains. Based in Cupertino, he excels at translating transportation research and customer feedback into actionable product roadmaps that serve both enterprise and developer audiences.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Environmental Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Environmental Science at University of Missouri-Kansas CityMaster of Science (MS), Geographic Information Science, Master of Science (MS), Geographic Information Science at University of Denver
Github Skills (12)
html10
video-streaming10
typescript10
javascript10
hlsl10
mediasource10
typescripts10
playback10
typescript-types10
player10
streaming10
ecmascript9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
video-dev/hls.js
Jun 2023 - Dec 2024
HLS.js is a JavaScript library that plays HLS in browsers with support for MSE.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 3 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Evan primarily contributed to the `hls.js` library, focusing on feature enhancements and bug fixes related to video playback and configuration. They added a `videoPreference` configuration option to handle HDR/SDR video range selection, improved the handling of subtitle details, and addressed issues in the audio group handling for light builds. Their work involved modifications across multiple files, including core logic files and configuration files.
hlsjshls-streamplaybackhtml5stream
iamboorrito/Lagrange-Interpolation-Demo
Aug 2017 - Jun 2021
Contributions:1 release, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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