Parimal Bajpai

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India25 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Led engineering teams for B2C and B2B SaaS products.
Expertise in AdTech and video streaming technologies.
Holds 11 US patents in engineering innovations.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS engineering leader with extensive experience in AdTech and video conferencing.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementPython (programming Language)Generative AiTeam BuildingAgile MethodologiesCloud Services

Other Skills

Engineering LeadershipCommunicationAd TechCoachingOnline AdvertisingAutomationVendor ManagementCloud ComputingHiringSoftware DevelopmentIntegrationSoftware DesignConsumer ElectronicsSystem ArchitectureProgram Management

About

• Engineering leader with expertise in B2C (200M+ Android DAU & $150M+ ARR), B2B SaaS ($100M ARR), and raising kickass Product+Engineering teams. • Tech focus on AdTech (DSP, SSP, DRR, engagement, advertiser KPIs); Video streaming, conferencing, production & consumption; AI, ML & GenAI; Cloud infra scale, cost, migration & InfoSec. • Own Product roadmap and metrics on engagement, revenue, customer satisfaction and infra cost. • Partner with CXOs/Sales/Product leaders to chase PMF & competitive advantages, including insights from user feedback and support teams. Minimizing MVPs for GTM advantage. • Early employee in two exits: (a) Sling Media by Dish/Echostar, (b) BlueJeans Network by Verizon. • The unifying career theme has been startups creating best in class global products/services - working with customers, sales & success/support teams, product managers and tech leaders. Specifics: • Current team of 90 engineers includes Dev, SDET/QA, Director & Sr Engg Mgr, ML & Data Scientists • Current role subsumes CTO, DS/AI/ML, Engg & Prog Mgmt responsibilities • Infra: GCP, Azure, AWS, data center • Apps: web/js, Mac, Win, iOS, Android & Linux • Domain: AdTech, video conferencing, video streaming • Industry: Advertising Tech, Enterprise Video Conferencing (SaaS), Consumer Electronics (CE) • 11 US patents granted

Experience

25 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

11 mos

Current Experience

Workifi by tifin

Senior Vice President of Engineering

Jun 2025 – Present · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Companies founded this year are built on Gen AI. The app interfaces are simple, but behind the scenes functionality is enormous. There are guard-rails for safety but conveniences to offer are boundless. Team sizes are small but the business disruption to old-tech and old-incentives is huge.
At WorkiFi by TIFIN, we're solving for employee financial wellness without any ticketing system. Financial wellness not limited to salary and ITR1, but expanding into NPS, EPF, Stocks & MFs, insurance coverage, and tax advisory.
BE & FE are efficient, and all the LLM pieces are hosted on our GPUs inside our datacenter partner. PoCs are done using cloud solutions, but productised versions run on our infra - all data staying within the country.

Engineering ManagementPython (Programming Language)Engineering Leadership

Inmobi

VP of Engineering

Apr 2021 – May 2025 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Setting up the team for 10x scale by process upgrades and hiring
Working with SVP (P&L owner) for investment in three products - 1Weather (x → 10x journey), Folders (0 → 1, PMF search), Hub (0 → 1, PMF search)
Working with biz GMs to meet customers, forecast product needs, run trials for feedback, and pivot
Process upgrades: PRD writing, Solutioning, Arch. & Design, Automation, Estimation & Planning, Sprint execution
Owning DS & AI tracks for "AI first" solutions for content moderation, content creation, personalisation, content distribution, meeting advertiser KPIs, and Ads auction optimization
Converted a task & process driven Engg team to a team driven by business outcomes

Team BuildingCommunicationEngineering ManagementGenerative AIAd TechCoaching+1

Talview

VP of Engineering

Jan 2020 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Converted ad-hoc task driven Engg team to a process driven reliable team
Converted inter-team task conflicts to priority driven planned milestones
Converted large feature definitions to MVP for agile delivery
Converted crisis driven Customer Success engagement to confident expectation management
Reduced release cycle from 6-wk to 1-wk by build & deployment automation, uniform test cases, test automation, load testing and dashboards
Reduced effort estimation error from 300% to 30% - optimistic to realistic stretch
Sprint completion improved from 45% to 70% by reducing interrupts
Improved quality & customer focus to reduce blocker bugs from 40+ to < 5
Large customer events didn’t need anxious all-hands monitoring any more
Infrastructure scaling up & down automated – cloud cost reduced even as usage increased 7x
Hands on with RCA writing, critical bug (analysis, estimation & prioritization), architecture discussions, multimedia architecture

Team BuildingCommunicationEngineering ManagementCoaching

Career break

Career transition

Dec 2019 – Jan 2020 · 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka

Quit the previous job to meet startup founders, and join something inspiring.

Blue jeans network

Director Engineering

Mar 2014 – Dec 2019 · 5 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

B2B cloud service; millions of concurrent users; 100 Gbps traffic
Create roadmap with leadership and product management
People: Hire, mentor, retrain & reassign
Vendor management: SOW; cost; acceptance
Seeded 3 teams from scratch
1. Multimedia SDK: Mac, Win, iOS, Android & Linux; CPU opt.
2. Cloud services: Recording, IVR & banners, Audio bridge
3. Gateway for Microsoft Teams
Tech: RTP/RTX/FEC, webrtc, simulcast, SIP/H323, ICE/TURN
Automation: Lipsync, AV banners & IVR, bandwidth adherence
B2B SaaS compliance: SoC2, third party/open source license management, change process & user access control

Team BuildingCommunicationEngineering ManagementCoaching

Sling media

4 roles

Manager

Promoted

Apr 2011 – Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Engineering Manager to coordinate development, launch and further feature enhancement & bug fixing of flagship products Slingbox 500 and 350.
This includes vendor management and coordination with factory production line.
Project Management – Manage development & QA schedules, interdependency with Sling Player and backend teams, hardware and factory production team, and most importantly feature & bug priorities with Product Management team.
People Leadership – Experience of 5 years. Mentoring by identifying and focussing on behavior & performance patterns. And used specific incidents as examples of repeating pattern. Created a team that is trusting, helpful, committed and stretches willingly to achieve difficult goals.

Team BuildingCommunicationEngineering Management

Principal Engineer

Jul 2008 – Jan 2011 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Engineering leadership role expanded.
Mentoring team-members to help them realize their amition.
Adding proprietary streaming formats supported by new popular devices.
Expanding Slingbox functionality to become integrable & portable.

Sr Tech Lead

Jul 2006 – Jun 2008 · 1 yr 11 mos

Expansion of Slingbox to include integration within other existing hardware products like modems and STBs.
Proprietary streaming protocol based on UDP that works better than TCP, UDP & RUDP.
Expansion of ecosystem to include many more client platforms and backend servers.

Communication

Tech Lead

Jul 2004 – Jun 2006 · 1 yr 11 mos

Creation of Slingbox - proprietary control and bandwidth management protocols. Protocols for ecosystem of clients and backend support server. Integration of codecs and container (WMV, WMA, ASF).

Communication

Career break

Career transition

Jan 2011 – Mar 2011 · 2 mos

Tried a 0-to-1 startup, that didn't really go well with the founders.

Ittiam systems

Senior Engineer

Oct 2001 – Jun 2004 · 2 yrs 8 mos

1. Created from scratch AV playback and streaming systems – RTSP, RTP/RTCP, RFC 3016, MP4, ASF
2. Created multimedia software that was integrated in multiple CE products with US, Taiwan and South Korea based OEMs for in-flight entertainment, handycams for recording and playback

Xymorph technologies

Cofounder, Architect

Jul 2000 – Sep 2001 · 1 yr 2 mos

Cofounded Xymorph with classmates.
Two key projects were:
1. Extremely low bitrate classroom recording: Algorithm & implementation, using a single webcam, to separate whiteboard ink from surroundings and moving people & other objects.
2. Cam VideoFX: $25 PC application for transcoding, adding text & graphic animation on video. (http://www.brothersoft.com/publisher/xymorph-technologies.html)