Resume | Trevor Hunsaker

Skills: Effective, audience-specific technical communication; Designing effective solutions to streaming video problems; Managing a remote-first distributed development team; Collaborating across multiple timezones (USA, Israel)

Technical: HLS, DASH; Fairplay, Widevine; VAST, VMAP, Server-side Ad Insertion; Freewheel SmartXML; Python, Django, JavaScript; Linux, Win, OS X

Director, Software Dev Engineering

Verizon Media, Media Platform

Sept 2019 - Present

Core member of "Video Rethink Project" tasked with reimagining platform's core design approaches (eg. turn monolith into microservice)
Participating on the Change Advisory Board, tasked with evaluating safety of deploys
Managing team of 14 developers
Continued responsibility for player-facing APIs listed in "Sr. Manager" section below
Lead designer of new features:
- Dynamic Graphic Overlays
- Content Recommendation Engine Integration
- Personalized Timed Metadata in Manifests (OMSDK)
  - Inventor on patent 11,418,854: Milestone determination associated with video presentation
Primary stakeholder for ad beacon integration testing framework

Sr. Manager, Software Dev Engineering

Verizon Digital Media Services

May 2017 - Sept 2019

Managing team of 10 developers, supporting on-demand and live streaming playback for customers such as ESPN, Discovery, Disney, ABC, and Fox.
Responsible for player-facing APIs which:
- Generate dynamic, personalized HLS & DASH manifests
- Communicate with ad servers, insert personalized ads directly into the stream, and pass ad info to players
- Perform per-viewer server-side ad beaconing
- Serve authenticated requests for video decryption keys / DRM licenses
Above APIs work at scale, serving more than 1.5 million concurrent viewers
Grew the team from 6 to 10 members

Software Engineer

Verizon Digital Media Services (previously Uplynk)

September 2014 - May 2017

Team Lead for dynamic HLS & DASH manifest generation & server-side ads communications
Built FairPlay Streaming (FPS) key server implementation
Initial architect of dynamic DASH manifest generator
Initial architect of Widevine license server integration
Architect of ESNI (SCTE 224) ingest and playback system (personalized blackouts)
Inventor on patent 10,572,909: Hybrid Client-Side Beacon Tracking
Refactored API code to make it more easily extensible

Web Developer

Spillman Technologies

January 2009 - August 2014

Architected and built user- and SEO-friendly CMS for website in Django. Expanded later to handle multiple domains. Citadex.com was live within one-week of receiving Photoshop mockups
Designed and built intranet web-apps: Call Report, Employee Wellness Program, HR Job Req Tracker, License Tracker, Server Dashnoard, IT Quotes
Deployment and custom integration of Customer Portal for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011
Automated deployments using Fabric
Took over maintenance and development of ASP.NET/C# intranet apps: Timecard, Condo Reservation
Maintain extant PHP codebase, add features. Administer 3rd party PHP apps: phpBB, activeCollab, Testlink
Designed/Built new website site features: Customer File Exchange, Registrations
Server administration (Linux) for website and intranet (Apache, MySQL)

Architectural Illustrator

Cooper Roberts Simonsen Associates

July 2007 - October 2008

Talent Manager

L-3 Communications

Feburary 2007 - July 2007

Media Development Specialist

L-3 Communications

February 2004 - February 2007

Certified Widevine Implementation Partner
SANS: GIAC Web Application Penetration Tester
MCTS: SharePoint Server 2007, Configuration
Honorable Mention: Utah Film Commission Commercial Contest 2004
Director's Choice, Motion Graphics: University of Utah Digital Media Festival 2005
Eagle Scout, Scout Master
Youth Soccer Coach

B.A. Digital Media, University of Utah, December 2004