SUMMARY:

• Accomplished software engineer with more than 10 years of experience, which spans over enormously diversified environments.
• It includes working at Silicon Valley startup as well as conglomerate like Samsung.
• Proficient in problem solving methodologies with proper use of data structures and implementation of algorithms with least possible complexity.
• Having ample experience developing highly available, fault tolerant distributed systems that have multithreading environment at its core of functionality.
• Skilled to expert level in Linux network programming for embedded systems on state of the art GPUs.
• Having adequate exposure to entire network stack with emphasis on UDP, TCP and IP.
• Having adequate exposure to development of Native and Web based User interfaces for embedded platforms using QT.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Network Protocols: RTP, RTSP, HTTP, DLNA, UPnP, HLS, MPEG - DASH.

Media Codecs and Containers: H.264, MP4, MP3, AAC, MPEG-2 (TS and PS).

Domain Knowledge: Video Streaming, multimedia FW, IPTV, SetTopBox-STB development.

RELEVANT EMPLOYMENT & PROJECTS:

Confidential, Dallas

Technical Lead/ Sr. Tech Developer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented and coded Video Streaming Server framework that Adheres to RTSP protocol for client interaction and easily extendable to other protocols of same category.
• Coded for RTP protocol to support to MPEG2-TS stream data over Linux UDP sockets.
• Implemented fault tolerance feature for slave nodes in cluster.
• Created unified architecture for streaming of on demand media and IPTV channel feeds.
• Extended the functionality of existing hardware of STB to make it work as IPTV client.
• Implemented QoS for streaming video service. Enabled product to detect and report Video freezes.

Tools: /technologies: (C++, Linux, MPEG-DASH, IPTV technology)

Continental

Technical Lead/ Sr. Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented pay per drive feature from scratch including design of interaction messages.
• Developed keyless access module and rental management module of Cloud car sharing feature.
• Developed a module to log vehicle functions for each car at server side so as to build a profile for vehicle’s health.
• Contributed to numerous bug fixes.
• Developed media pipeline to extract information from media content and corresponding metadata.
• Designed communication messages between content server and IVI client.
• Developed a player that can receive HTTP stream on GENIVI stack.
• Implemented HMI(UI) module using QT APIs.

Tools: /technologies: C++, Qt/QML, Linux, DLNA, UPnP, HLS, DASH

Confidential

Sr Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed communication module using RTP, DLNA (for In-home mode) and RTSP, RTP (for remote mode).
• Implemented Recording feature in MAC Application which includes ad-hoc and scheduled recording both.
• Eliminated UI response lag by implementing MVC architecture in application.
• Contributed to numerous bug fixes.
• Designed system APIs to use Wi-Fi interface of MAC.
• Used MAC’s Core WLAN framework to implement Wi-Fi module of the application.
• Integrated with rest of the application’s C++ code.

Tools: /technologies: Objective C, C++, Qt/QML

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed RTSP interaction messages for Confidential functionality.
• Wrote server side module for handling abrupt request to change stream offset from user in C, Gst APIs.
• Wrote client side module to accomplish corresponding tasks to entertain same request in C++, Phonon.
• Implemented RTSP communication for trick play at server in C.
• Implemented RTSP message interaction for trick play at client on QT.

Tools: /technologies: (Gstreamer, Embedded Linux, C++, Qt/QML, Phonon)

Confidential

Sr Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Won the best project for making IPTV App for Confidential DTV platform.
• Increased the server performance 60% by properly implementing multithreading.
• Designed the Probe module for which essentially included probing different SNMP properties of IPTV remotely.
• Developed and tested QT based desktop VOD Client meant to interact with same server.
• Application is primarily meant to receive RTP stream and de-packetize it and provide it to the codec buffer.
• Framework is capable to downloading, storing, executing and displaying HTML5/JS content.
• Primarily responsible for proper execution of JS content on JS engine we had previously ported.
• Analyzed, tested, debugged and made sure proper playback of mp4 video content in widgets.

Tools: /technologies: (C++, Embedded Linux, JS, CSS, HTML5, Mp4 playback)

Confidential

Scientist

Responsibilities:

• Designed session control module adhering to RTSP protocol.
• Used RTP plugin GStreamer framework to depacketize RTP header.
• Codec engine API provided functionality to process and render multimedia data on screen.

Tools: /Technologies:(C, TI codec Engine, TI Davinci SOC, Montavista Linux, GStreamer)