Steve Mayhew
Distinguished Engineer at TiVo
Cupertino, California, United States
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SeniorSteve Mayhew is a Distinguished Engineer in Cupertino with over 13 years of focused leadership in software architecture, full‑stack development, and team building across onshore and offshore organizations. He blends hands‑on coding fluency—particularly in JavaScript front‑ends, Java backends, Python, and AWS—with product-minded architecture that couples UI excellence to sustainable business models. A proven leader at TiVo/Xperi and several startups, he has scaled engineering teams and driven product-critical improvements from media players to cloud services. He also contributes to notable open-source front-end work (e.g., enhancements to the widely used mediaelement HTML5 player), demonstrating continued attention to UI polish and cross-platform playback quirks. Known for staying current with emerging technologies, he combines deep technical breadth with a pragmatic, delivery-oriented approach.
13 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (12)
html10
videojs10
javascript10
movie-player10
video-player10
player10
flash9
css9
g8
gruntjs8
mp47
hlsl6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mediaelement/mediaelement
Mar 2015 - Jun 2015
HTML5 <audio> or <video> player with support for MP4, WebM, and MP3 as well as HLS, Dash, YouTube, Facebook, SoundCloud and others with a common HTML5 MediaElement API, enabling a consistent UI in all browsers.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 12 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily contributed to the front-end development of the media player, focusing on the Flash and HTML5 implementations. Their work included debugging Flash-related error messages and enhancing the user interface by adding a jump forward feature, along with related CSS styling. They also addressed issues with the display of buffered progress in the scrub bar and refined the mute/unmute functionality. Furthermore, the user made changes to build configurations to include or exclude features in the final build.
mp3youtubevideo-playerhtml5video
TiVo/ExoPlayer
Jul 2019 - Feb 2024
An extensible media player for Android
Contributions:60 pushes, 63 branches in 4 years 7 months
mediaplayerexoplayerandroidkotlinmedia-player
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