Archit Agrawal

Engineering Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in OTT video streaming technologies.
Led engineering teams in high-growth startup environments.
Proven track record of enhancing media player performance.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Media & Entertainment technology expert with a focus on streaming solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Streaming MediaOtt Video Streaming Protocols

Other Skills

Adaptive StreamingAdaptive bitrateAlgorithmsArchitectureCC++CSSCommCommunicationDASHDRM protocolsData StructuresDesignDjangoGNU Octave

About

An alumnus of IIT Roorkee, with around 5 years of experience in developing high-tech consumer and enterprise level products. Started my career with Adobe as a part of the Primetime TVSDK team which powered the backend of players like Hotstar, Comcast, HBOGo, etc. I then moved to a very early stage startup at the time, Avail Finance, as the head of the engineering team, architecting and scaling the platform which caters to the next billion users, the Indian blue-collared workforce.

Experience

Google

Engineering Manager

May 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 10 mos

Postman

Engineering Manager

Aug 2020 – May 2021 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Avail finance

4 roles

Head Of Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2019 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

All things tech at Avail Finance.

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Oct 2018 – Apr 2019 · 6 mos

Team Lead

Apr 2018 – Oct 2018 · 6 mos

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2017 – Apr 2018 · 7 mos

Adobe

2 roles

Senior Member Of Technical Staff

May 2016 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos

1.5 years of extensive product experience in OTT video space including streaming media playback and packaging.
Hands on experience of OTT video streaming protocols like HLS, DASH etc.
Skilled in MediaSource Extension API.
Implemented core playback features such as adaptive bitrate, late bound audio, discontinuity support, etc. in Primetime based HTML5 player.
Improved the performance of Primetime HTML5 based player.
Hands on with DRM protocols for streaming media like FairPlay, AAXS, PlayReady and Widevine

Media SourceDASHStreaming MediaOTT video streaming protocolsHTML5Adaptive bitrate+1

Member of Technical Staff

Jun 2015 – May 2016 · 11 mos

At Adobe I worked on video streaming as part of Adobe Primetime team with the focus on an HTML5 based media player for HLS and DASH. I was entrusted with the core playback features (such as supporting adaptive bitrate, late bound audio , media discontinuity support, etc.) as well as with performance improvement in terms of startup and latency

Media SourceDASHStreaming MediaHTML5Adaptive bitrateOTT video streaming protocols