Umesh Shukla

VP of Engineering

San Francisco, California, United States18 yrs 4 mos experience

AI ML PractitionerHighly Stable

Key Highlights

15+ years in real-time communications engineering.
Delivered products with over 500M daily active users.
Inventor on 10 U.S. patents in wireless technology.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in real-time communications and AI-driven systems for consumer applications.

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Skills

Core Skills

Real-time Media & SystemsTech LeadershipAi & Ml Systems

Other Skills

3GPPAlgorithmsCCellular CommunicationsCoreTelephonyDigital Signal ProcessorsEmbedded SoftwareEmbedded SystemsFaceTimeGSMHLS encodingIntel modemsInternet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP)JavaLTE

About

Engineering leader with 15+ years of experience building real-time communications products and scaling consumer features. Strong track record of delivering 500M+ DAU products, aligning engineering with product strategy, and building high-performing organizations across backend, mobile, ML teams. Holds 10 U.S. patents. Tech Leadership: build-vs.-buy strategy, Mentoring EMs and senior ICs, org design & scaling, Talent Management Real-time Media & Systems: LIVE video/audio stack, Messaging & notifications stack, WebRTC, GStreamer, HLS AI & ML Systems: Feed ranking systems, Real-time moderation, Search ranking infra, Voice AI Agents Programming Languages: C/C++, Python, Go, SQL

Experience

Sharechat

Senior Director | Head of Live EcoSystem Engineering

Sep 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Responsible for real-time communications based creator economy ecosystem and helped build a dominant revenue stream for ShareChat.
My teams built features such as video livestreaming, audio chatrooms, 1:1 calling, direct messaging, multi-player casual games, and virtual economy for ShareChat family of apps.
We also built livestreaming infra (webrtc, real-time moderation & recording, HLS encoding, real-time messaging) in-house to power these features and saved tons in server cost.

WebRTCreal-time moderationHLS encodingreal-time messagingReal-time Media & SystemsTech Leadership

Apple

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2010 – Apr 2017 · 7 yrs 3 mos · Cupertino, California, United States

Developed CoreTelephony components shipping telephony modem innovations across multiple iOS.
Integrated Intel modems into iOS, achieving significant vendor cost-savings and supplier diversification.
Optimized the telephony stack, improving FaceTime and Siri call success rates and reducing latencies. - Recognized as an inventor on 10 U.S. patents related to wireless protocols and telephony stack design.

CoreTelephonytelephony modem innovationsFaceTimeSiriIntel modemsReal-time Media & Systems+1