Srinivasa Kaka — Program Manager

Over 22 years of consistent contributions in delivering products comprising complex ecosystems. Proven track record of building large, motivated, and cohesive teams that are part of many successful roll-out of Streaming products to millions of users. Experience in leading the teams through Org level structural changes and process transformations. Strong collaborative leader adept in partnering with peers from Business, Ops and Support teams across locations to deliver quality products as a team. Effective in reaching out to people, working out strategies together and developing positive relationships across the Organization. Good at establishing working cadence between Dev and QA teams for a highly productive environment. Diversified experience on products across different domains – Video streaming, Embedded Systems, Distributed systems, Networking, Telecommunications and Backend/Micro services with major contributions in delivering product streams such as ● OTT LiveTV (HLS, DASH streaming) Apps for TV and Mobile platforms ● SlingPlayer, SlingBox and associated Backend services implementing OTA streaming for PC, TV and Mobile platforms ● Multimedia Frameworks with support for different AV codecs (H264, Mpeg4, AAC, etc) and RTSP/RTP Streaming standards ● Highly available and scalable SAAS products customizable per needs of Enterprise customers ● Highly available Notification servers handling huge loads of users’ events ● ISUP protocols (SS7) on Nortel DMS switches ● SNMP agents and SCSI drivers Ability to adapt and deliver on opportunities in any new technology or domain, given the experience and exposure spanning multiple, diversified domain areas. Worked for organizations like Sling (part of Dish Networks USA), Aricent, Sasken, OTelNet Inc (2+ yrs in the USA) and Wipro

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Telecommunications expert with a strong focus on streaming and multimedia technologies.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 29 yrs 2 mos

Skills

Saas
Project Management
Over-the-top Content (ott)
Multimedia Framework
Networking
Software Development
Quality Engineering
Telecom Signaling

Career Highlights

22 years of experience in product delivery.
Led teams delivering streaming products to millions.
Expert in building cohesive and high-performance teams.

Work Experience

GlobalVox

Project Delivery Manager (4 yrs 5 mos)

Career Break

Personal goal pursuit (1 yr 3 mos)

Sling Media

Senior Manager (12 yrs)

ARICENT

Engineering Project Manager (5 yrs)

SASKEN COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED

Senior Software Engineer (7 mos)

OTELNET

Software Engineer (2 yrs 1 mo)

Wipro

Sr. Software Engineer (2 yrs 6 mos)

Chip software consultants

Software Engineer (1 yr 3 mos)

Education

Masters in Computer Applications at Andhra University

B.Sc (Computer science) at Acharya Nagarjuna University

Srinivasa Kaka

Program Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India29 yrs 2 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

22 years of experience in product delivery.
Led teams delivering streaming products to millions.
Expert in building cohesive and high-performance teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Telecommunications expert with a strong focus on streaming and multimedia technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

SaasProject ManagementOver-the-top Content (ott)Multimedia FrameworkNetworkingSoftware DevelopmentQuality EngineeringTelecom Signaling

Other Skills

Visitor Management SystemAPI IntegrationCloud MigrationOTTOTAStreamingTest AutomationHLSDASHMobile ApplicationsEmbedded SystemsAudio Video CodecsStreaming StandardsAutomation EngineeringKsh

About

Experience

Globalvox

Project Delivery Manager

Oct 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 5 mos · India · Hybrid

Led a team of 20 developers delivering EASEVisitor product (an advanced visitor management system), which is a SAAS product offered to Enterprise clients for digitally managing their visitors – invitations, printable badges, contactless check-ins through QR code, access to policy documents, etc. The deliverables include visitor management applications and backend services, and integrations with 3rd party applications such as micro blink, Google maps, CleanAddress, Facial Recognition Devices using APIs, cloud migrations and customizations for other clients per their needs. Implemented this product for an US based client and subsequently partnered with them in their sales and customization efforts to offer this system to their clientele.

SAASVisitor Management SystemAPI IntegrationCloud MigrationProject Management

Career break

Personal goal pursuit

Jun 2020 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka

On a break after working on couple of stealth startup (food tech and IT services) initiatives that did not take off due to viability reasons.

Sling media

Senior Manager

Jun 2008 – Jun 2020 · 12 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

During 12 years of tenure at Sling, led a 30+ member team (including 3 managers) contributing to delivery of multiple tracks at the same time through many successful launches and roll-outs of OTT and OTA Streaming products on various PC (Windows, Mac, Web), Mobile (Android and iOS) and TV platforms (Roku, Apple TV, Google TV, Xbox, WebOS).
Key products:
SlingTV OTT App that primarily enables users to watch live TV and OnDemand content (HLS/DASH) on various Mobile and TV platforms.
SlingPlayer app that enables users to watch live TV or DVR content anywhere in the world when their STBs/DVRs are connected to SlingBox, which is an embedded, network connected device running server-side functionality.
DishAnywhere app that allows users to stream Live TV, OnDemand and recorded content from Dish STBs
Key Contributions:
Built teams that are knows for high perfomrance and credibility across orgnization.
Introduced and institutionalized the processes, metric, tools and techniques that helped in reducing the release cycle times by 50 to 60% across the products.
Maintained on-schedule delivery 95% of the time and critical defects slippage less than 1% of the time.
Contributed in successfully delivery of 25+ products to innovate for continuously evolving environment.
Guided the teams through Test automation thought process - Building Selenium and Appium based automation frameworks that enable seamless execution of same scripts on different platforms.
Led the teams through process transformations - Agile, SAFe and DevOps - taken up across the Organization.
Collaborated with teams of various functions - Development, Product Owners, Operations and Support - to reprioritize teams work and deliver the products ontime.
Worked with Business teams to define organization OKRs and create the team Roadmap and translating the same into goals.
Setup dashboards to monitor the health of releases post deployment and raise alarms in case of any critical incidents.

OTTOTAStreamingTest AutomationOver-the-Top Content (OTT)Project Management

Aricent

Engineering Project Manager

May 2003 – May 2008 · 5 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Built and lead a team that was responsible for validation and successful delivery of multimedia frameworks and Audio/Video codecs (H263, H264, Mpeg4, AAC, etc) enabling features such as local playback, recording, Streaming and video telephony across multiple mobile platforms of different OEMs. The major responsibilities included scaling up the team from 5 to 22 members and managing their career growth, setting up test lab for validating RTP/RTSP streaming, Video Telephony (3G-324M) and IMS features.

Multimedia FrameworkAudio Video CodecsProject Management

Sasken communication technologies limited

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2002 – Apr 2003 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Led a team of 2 engineers on the automation efforts of Nortel’s BCM (Business Communication Manager), which is a Nortel Networks' next generation PBX that offers a converged solution for small/medium-size businesses and branch offices relieving them from the need to have separate entities for providing voice and data networking services.

Automation EngineeringNetworkingSoftware Development

Otelnet

Software Engineer

Apr 2000 – May 2002 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Berkeley, California, United States · On-site

Worked on test design, automation (Perl, Python and Ksh) and tool development to validate High availability features of OTELNET's Convergent Services Platform (O-CSP), which is a multi-threaded distributed system implemented on Solaris OS and helps developers rapidly design and implement fast, scalable and highly available network services, which can be monitored and managed remotely. Notification server is one such service implemented on O-CSP for generating event-based notifications to the users.

Test DesignAutomationDistributed SystemsQuality EngineeringSoftware Development

Wipro

Sr. Software Engineer

Sep 1997 – Mar 2000 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Implementation and sustenance of SS7 Call processing features on Nortel DMS-100 switches, which tracks include interworking between different variants of ISUP, such as UKISUP, BTUP, APC-ISUP, etc. As a module owner of these features, handled the user and system requirements, and prioritization and routing of service requests/issues to the team while working on some of them hands-on.

SS7Telecom SignalingSoftware Development

Chip software consultants

Software Engineer

Jun 1996 – Sep 1997 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Developed SCSI Target Driver for Frame Synchronization Unit (FSU), which is an NRSA (National Remote Sensing Agency, India) device meant to synchronize the data frames coming from satellites. Also implemented SNMP V2C agent library meant for encoding and decoding SNMP PDUs using BER complying to RFCs – 1155, 1157 and 1212.

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