Tyler Daines
Senior Software Engineer at Edgio
Spokane, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTyler Daines is a senior software engineer based in Spokane, Washington with a decade of professional experience building media and networked systems across startups and large enterprises. Currently at Edgio after a long tenure at Verizon Digital Media Services, he focuses on improving playback and delivery reliability for video streaming platforms. He contributes to the widely used open-source hls.js project, where his work refactoring ID3 parsing and demuxer logic improved tag handling and code organization for in-browser HLS playback. Tyler brings a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach informed by early roles in CAD and networking, making him comfortable across backend services and performance-sensitive client code. Known for tidying complex parsing logic and fixing subtle frame-size calculations, he balances deep technical craftsmanship with production-grade output. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Eastern Washington University and applies that practical foundation to durable, maintainable engineering.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Eastern Washington University
Github Skills (5)
html10
video-streaming10
javascript10
hlsl10
streaming10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
video-dev/hls.js
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
HLS.js is a JavaScript library that plays HLS in browsers with support for MSE.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 6 PRs, 1 push in 2 months
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily contributed to the `id3-track-controller.js` and related files, significantly refactoring ID3 tag parsing and processing logic. Their work involved decoding and storing ID3 data within the video playback, specifically implementing support for URL link and WXXX ID3 frames. They also fixed calculations related to frame sizes. Furthermore, the user refactored various demuxer files and moved parsing logic into dedicated files, indicating a focus on improving code organization and efficiency within the HLS.js library.
hlsjshls-streamplaybackhtml5stream
tdaines/hls.js
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:45 pushes, 4 branches in 2 months
javascriptmedia-source-extensionhls
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