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Sagar Gaonkar

CTO

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India17 yrs 6 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Over 13 years of experience in multimedia systems architecture.
  • Proven track record in mentoring engineering teams.
  • Expertise in optimizing high-performance video processing workflows.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a multimedia systems architect with expertise in high-performance video streaming and technical leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software Architecture & DesignTechnical Program Management

Other Skills

Video processing workflowsCost optimizationContent securityUser experience improvementSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Distributed SystemsSystem DesignStreaming MediaPython (Programming Language)Amazon Web Services (AWS)DockerAkamaiEmbedded SystemsDevice DriversH.264

About

A hands-on System Architect and Technology Enthusiast with 13+ years of industry experience in architecting and building distributed multimedia systems, and proven track record of excellence. Seeking a full-time position as a Product/Tech Architect for high impact applications in a growing organisation with opportunities to technically mentor an engineering team. CORE SKILLS Software Architecture & Design, Product Development: + Experienced in complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) + Architected, designed and implemented multiple generations of complex, scalable & high performance multimedia SDKs & end applications + Designed systems for maximizing reuse of IP, optimized performance/scalability, ease of usage, reliable operation on field, and portability across different platforms + Technically mentored a team of Engineers/Senior Engineers and Lead Engineers (0-8 yrs experience levels) including day-to-day guidance and review of design, code and test strategies + Applications: Video Streaming/Transcoding, AI-enabled DVR, Video Analytic Server + Markets: Surveillance, Enterprise, Defence, Entertainment, Smart City + Platforms: ARM/Intel, Linux/Windows/Android + Programming Languages: C, C++, Perl Product Conceptualization: + Made key contributions to product roadmap definition through market study, business qualification and technical research + Identified new technologies/features and contributed to explore ideas for new products + Created and presented product specifications, worked across stakeholders for alignment Technical Program Management: + Collaborated across cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering, QA) + Tracked project plans for timely completion and intervened for risk mitigation where necessary + Handled internal / external communication with stakeholders on technical deliverables KEY TECHNOLOGIES + Network-based application development (REST,HTTP API) + Streaming Protocols & Formats + Media SDKs/frameworks + Video Codecs, Audio Codecs

Experience

17 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
10 mos
Current Experience

Storytv app (by eloelo group)

Building

Jun 2025 – Present · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Eloelo

Chief Technology Officer

Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Sharechat

Senior Engineering Manager

Jun 2023 – Feb 2024 · 8 mos · Hybrid

100ms

2 roles

Director Of Engineering

Promoted

Feb 2022 – May 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Senior Engineering Manager

Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Hotstar

Manager / System Architect (Video)

Mar 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • Domain: High scale OTT platform
  • Roles & Responsibilities
  • 1. Lead the team of 12+ to ensure that the team delivers smoothly after the departure of manager
  • 2. Architect, develop and maintain the video processing workflows which are designed for quality,
  • robustness and scale (3500+ contents/week)
  • 3. Optimise delivery and processing cost by adding new codecs, tuning ladders, better packaging,
  • optimizing data flow in pipelines. Costs reduced by ~20% without drop in user experience.
  • 4. Improved end user experience by collaboration across multiple teams on projects like increasing
  • download speeds, adding 4K/HDR10/Dolby Vision and Dolby 5.1 audio, ROI based zoom, etc.
  • 5. Improve content security with multi DRM covering all devices in the field
  • 6. Field data/metrics driven approach for increasing viewer experience and reducing delivery cost
Video processing workflowsCost optimizationContent securityUser experience improvementSoftware Architecture & DesignTechnical Program Management

Ittiam systems pvt ltd

5 roles

Principal Engineer

Promoted

Sep 2016 – Mar 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • Domain: High performance software for video streaming, digital video recording, machine vision, visual analytics and machine learning for surveillance, defense, smart city, smart buildings, healthcare and medical applications.
  • Roles & Responsibilities
  • 1. Product architecture, design for multimedia systems
  • 2. Product definition, Use case analysis
  • 3. Requirements analysis, Technical proposals for customer RFPs
  • 4. New platform exploration
  • 5. Customer front-ending, Project management
  • 6. People mentoring and training
  • 7. Internal technical training on SDK architecture & design
  • 8. Process definition & deployment
  • Technologies
  • 1. 4K video processing
  • 2. HTTP streaming, Adaptive streaming
  • 3. Rest APIs
  • 4. Multimedia SDKs (Gstreamer, FFMPEG, Intel Media SDKs, SDL, etc.)

Lead Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2013 – Aug 2016 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • Domain: Video surveillance
  • Roles & Responsibilities
  • 1. System design
  • 2. Product requirements definition, feasibility assessment, product delivery
  • 3. Customer front-ending
  • 4. Collaboration across various cross-functional teams
  • 5. People mentoring and training
  • 6. Internal technical training on SDK architecture & design
  • Technologies
  • 1. High Definition video processing
  • 2. Device drivers
  • 3. PCIe
  • 4. MPEG-2, H.264, H.265 video codecs. MP3, AAC, AC3 audio codecs
  • 5. Audio/Video streaming and signaling (RTP, MPEG2-TS, RTSP, HLS, MPEG DASH, Smooth Streaming)

Senior Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2011 – Mar 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • Domain: Video surveillance
  • Roles & Responsibilities
  • 1. Product championing & Customer front-ending
  • 2. Product (media engine and application software) development
  • 3. System integration
  • Technologies
  • 1. Multi-threaded C programming, Data structures
  • 2. MPEG-2 TS / RTP streaming, Video recording
  • 3. RTSP, SAP signaling
  • 4. MPEG-2, H.264 video codecs. MP3, AAC, AC3 audio codecs
  • 5. Video pre-processing

Engineer

Jul 2008 – Mar 2011 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • Domain: Video surveillance
  • Roles & Responsibilities
  • 1. Product (media engine) development
  • Technologies
  • 1. Multi-threaded C programming
  • 2. MPEG-2 TS / RTP streaming, Video recording
  • 3. RTSP, SAP signaling

Intern

Jan 2008 – May 2008 · 4 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Education

RV College Of Engineering

B.E. — Electronics & Communication

Jan 2004 – Jan 2008

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