Evan Lu
Lnformation Technology Manager
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Lu is an Information Technology Manager with 11 years of hands-on IT and project management experience, currently leading IT teams at HP from Palo Alto. He specializes in process-driven, continuous improvement project delivery and excels at aligning technical solutions with business needs through strong stakeholder and vendor communication. Evan has experience on both client and vendor sides, managing cross-functional teams, subcontractors and partners to drive project success and recover from failures. His background spans desktop and infrastructure support at Tencent Cloud, data analysis and reporting from earlier roles at Xiaomi, and technical leadership responsibilities at HP. An active contributor to open source, he enhanced the popular youtube-dl project's youku extractor, adding support for multi-part and password-protected videos—demonstrating a practical blend of systems thinking and coding. He pairs an MSc in Information Technology with a track record of translating complex requirements into efficient, operational systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
学士, Computer Software Engineering, 3.5, 学士, Computer Software Engineering, 3.5 at 上海交通大学附属中学硕士, Information Technology, 3.7, 硕士, Information Technology, 3.7 at 上海大学
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
path-manipulation10
json10
python10
feature-extraction10
youtube-dl10
extraction10
url-parsing10
video-download10
api10
data-extraction10
interaction10
youku10
extractor10
jsonb9
webscraping9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
ytdl-org/youtube-dl
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 23 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Evan primarily contributed to the `youtube-dl` project by enhancing the `youku.py` extractor. They focused on modifying the video extraction logic, including changes to headers, URL structures, and file ID retrieval. These modifications addressed issues related to downloading video parts and implementing password-protected video support. The user also made minor code improvements and merged data structures to improve the functionality of the Youku extractor.
command-line
Celthi/Celthi.github.io
Apr 2015 - Jan 2025
Contributions:106 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 9 months
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