Jan 2019 – Oct 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Jobvite is the first recruiting platform that spans the entire candidate journey, from recruitment marketing to the hiring experience to new hire engagement.
• Responsible for development and architecture of all Jobvite SaaS Applications(ATS, CRM, Careersite, Video, Mobile) with teams in US, Canada, London and India.
• Led a successful MSSQL to AWS Aurora MySQL database migration project. Presented the success story in AWS Reinvent 2019 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJs9U4ys5FE https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/modernizing-with-aws/how-jobvite-modernized/
• Post Jobvite's acquisition of 3 companies(Talemetry, Canvas and Rolepoint), helped through transition and consolidation of teams, tools, technologies, processes and roadmaps.

Apr 2013 – Jan 2019 · 5 yrs 9 mos

• Led the teams responsible for building Jobvite Hire, Engage and platform projects
• Helped grow, mentor, hire and retain teams in US and India
• Led and architected some of the most successful products/projects in Jobvite with focus on scalability, reliability and availability.
• Formed and led “Tiger Team” which was tasked to bring stability and consistency in our infrastructure. Managed the initiative to deploy 40+ services across multiple environments using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and help bring SDLC to infrastructure code (AWS cloudformation), configuration code(puppet/chef). This was the beginning of true DevOps culture in Jobvite!
• Responsible for the performance initiatives to improve our end user response times across the application.

Feb 2012 – Apr 2013 · 1 yr 2 mos · San Jose

• Working on the evolution of Cisco Videoscape Client from Native (Apple iOS) to a HTML5/Hybrid Model.
• Working with various key stakeholders to design/architect the next generation Videoscape Client.
• Leading the effort on Hybrid Application Strategy on Apple iOS Client. Researched, Evaluated and Prototyped schemes for communication between HTML5/JS and Native (Objective-C) Code - URLScheme and WebSockets.
• Scrum Master for Abstract Media Player (AMP) team and leading a small development team.
• Designed/Developed AMP that provides a common cross-platform JavaScript (HTML5 video tag like) interface for Media Playback on different clients (iOS, STB, Android etc.).
• Implemented Apple iOS Media Player using AVFoundation Framework and integration with 3rd Party SDK for playback of PlayReady Protected DRM Apple HLS Content.
• Developed a JavaScript polyfill for HTML5 video tag playback of PlayReady Protected content on Apple iOS Media Player using Hybrid Application Strategy.
• Automated Unit-Testing of AMP/Media Playback using Jasmine test cases on Apple iOS Simulator using WaxSim, Jenkins and NodeJS.

Aug 2011 – Jan 2012 · 5 mos · San Jose

• Worked on an iPAD application for the Cisco Videoscape Solution - Multi-screen cloud-driven IP based video delivery platform targeted for Cable & Satellite Service Providers.
• Managed the complex project, led the development team and interfaced with Product Management, UI/UX Team and Contractors to ensure delivery within schedule and high standards of SW Quality.
• Designed, Developed and Tested the Objective-C based SDK that would be used by service provider to build UI.
• Worked on Various aspects of application right from designing and implementing the infrastructure to application specific features that leverages cloud (Videoscape Backend) API's to integration with 3rd Party Vendor SDK (DRM integration with iOS Media Player).
• Developed several prototypes (Dynamic Advertising, Recommendation Engine, Download-to-Own) which involved working with 3rd Party SDKs and integration with the product.
• Developed expertise in DRM, Adaptive Bitrate Streaming (Apple HLS), Media Playback and iOS Application Development.
• Worked with TME's for customization/preparation for various Tradeshows (CES, NCTA, IBC) where the application was demoed.
• Laid down the infrastructure for various development tasks before project began - SVN Repository, Doxygen, Testflight for distributing application, remote logging. This ensured that once the entire development team is on board, focus is on development.

Sep 2010 – Jun 2011 · 9 mos · San Jose

• Worked on Video Pacing which helps reduce the bit rate sent to mobile users, such that delivery rate matches the encoded bit rate and leads to savings of air link resource.
• Implemented detection of encoding bit rate for mp4 and flash based container formats.
• Came up with algorithms to identify potential savings using Video Pacing and present the data meaningfully via bulk statistics on the ASR5K box.
• A US Tier1 customer successfully deploys the Product.
• The innovation in this feature led to filling of a Patent (Pending).

Mar 2008 – Aug 2010 · 2 yrs 5 mos · San Jose

• One of the first engineers in the LTE team developing Packet Data Network (PGW) and Serving Gateways (SGW). A US Tier1 customer successfully deploys the Product.
• Single-handedly implemented the GTPv2 protocol stack - a key piece for SGW and PGW.
• Key contributor/reviewer of the PGW/SGW design.
• Designed/Implemented key features of the GTP protocol and message handlers.
• Co-ordinated and led Redundancy tasks with India and SJC team.
• Part of IOT (Interoperability testing) team with US Tier1 customer vendors. Involved in understanding the differences in protocol implementations and resolving them.
• Followed 3GPP standards (TS 29.274 and TS 23.401) and tracked the changes and implemented as required.
• Mentored new hires and brought them up to speed to LTE as a technology and Cisco's implementation of the gateways.

May 2007 – Aug 2007 · 3 mos

• Worked in the IP Multicast Development Team and created a new Command Line Interface for the code which would help the Development Engineers to debug problems which are caused by the kernel.

Jan 2007 – Dec 2007 · 11 mos · Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Worked as a Teaching Assistant for the course, Program Design and Development. Duties involved conducting labs, grading and helping students learn C++ and Software Engineering.

Apr 2005 – May 2006 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Implementation of search feature in the web page created by the inventory tool.
• Development of a node and a card reservation tool for the team which would keep track of the different cards being used and would create a webpage for everyone to view. This involved CGI scripting using PERL and hosting it on the web server.