Evan Farina
Software Engineer at R1 RCM
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Farina is a seasoned software engineer with nine years of experience building high-quality client-side media platforms and web applications, now based in New York. At LinkedIn he led the client-side media strategy and co-created the company’s unified media player, driving cross-platform consistency, accessibility, and QoE pipelines used across Live, Learning, and Feed video. He combines hands-on front-end expertise—evidenced by open-source contributions to the video.js HTTP streaming library improving playback reliability and bandwidth estimation—with product-minded data engineering to unblock large-scale media migrations. Earlier roles span founding a startup as CTO, real-time WebRTC work for online learning, and full-stack systems for enterprise search and ticketing, showing a breadth from infrastructure to UX. Evan is comfortable leading cross-functional programs and shipping measurable improvements in media performance and instrumentation. He brings an engineer’s curiosity and proven ability to turn streaming edge-cases into robust, production-ready features.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Information Systems, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Information Systems at Bentley University
Spanish
Github Skills (6)
videojs10
javascript10
http-streaming10
test-automation9
mpeg-dash9
hlsl9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
videojs/http-streaming
Mar 2021 - Nov 2021
HLS, DASH, and future HTTP streaming protocols library for video.js
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:22 reviews, 6 commits, 7 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Evan primarily contributed to enhancing the playback functionality within the `videojs/http-streaming` repository, a library for HTTP streaming protocols. Their work involved fixing playback issues related to gaps at the beginning of streams and handling source changes. They also introduced new features, specifically allowing clients to limit playlist retries and incorporating the NetworkInformation API for bandwidth estimations. This indicates a focus on improving the reliability and performance of video streaming within the library.
dashjavascriptstreamingwebrtchls-stream
evanfarina/video.js
Mar 2019 - Sep 2020
Video.js - open source HTML5 & Flash video player
Contributions:9 commits, 13 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 6 months
videojshtml5-audiohtml5-videojavascriptflash
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