Apr 2022 – May 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Led the AdTech Division at Amagi, and the AI/ML initiatives across the company.
• Head of the AdTech Division, Responsible for content monetization via Amagi THUNDERSTORM. [~40 people]
• Led the cross company AI/ML team, Responsible for semantic data extraction from video content and monetization [~12 people]
• [Ml] Developed solutions for scene detection for new video formats (interviews, news) providing semantic scene break detection for ad insertion.
• [ML] Delivered Zone Analysis & Prediction for Dynamic Ad Insertion. Near real time video processing for identifying safe zones for dynamic ad overlays on content.
• [Platform] Reduced Costs using Internal Cloud API for Media Operations. Launched APIs for fundamental media processing, to standardize ingestion and asset processing. These API led to 30% reduction in costs for Amagi CLOUDPORT, replacing external tools with in house video processing capabilities.
• [AdTech] Reduced time to launch new channels by refactoring onboarding processes for management of dynamic ad insertion in video.
• [AdTech] POD Split For Improved Render Rates ~15% improvement. Dynamic splitting of ad requests to improve fill and render rates.
• [AdTech] Platform Refactoring Automated tools for onboarding with standards and strong rules on data management, leading to 50% reduction in issues and shorter onboarding times.

Oct 2021 – Apr 2022 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• I have built high performance platforms (millions of QPS), built payment related platforms for micro-rewards at Amazon, and have managed the payment stack for Google Workspace.

Sep 2018 – Oct 2021 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Built the first infrastructure service for Google Workspace in Bangalore, (~12 people)
• Managed IaaS (Identity As a Service), delivered a migration from a legacy platform (~6 people)
• Enterprise Payments Team: Responsible for payments, offers & subscriptions for Google Workspace (~22 people)
• [Launched first Infrastructure Service in India:] Recruited and led a team that designed and launched a new infrastructure platform within a year. (2Million QPS @40ms latency, 99.9995% availability). This was an internet-scale platform, supporting Google Mail, Calendar, Drive. Drove the alignment with the largest client teams (Mail, Calendar and Drive), to validate, then migrate, to the new platform. Succesfully led the service to be supported by SRE Oncall
• [Google Workspace:] 90% Reduction in Time/Effort of Pricing-Offer Management: Workspace Commerce team was infamous for delays due to complex legacy code, with hundreds of overlapping offers. Led the team in delivery of a new offer management platform, replacing legacy code with a rule based system, which reduced effort by 90% (4 weeks to 2 days). Completed in Jan 2020, this was a major enabler for the rebranding of Google Workspace in 2020. Commerce team earned the reputation of reliable timely deliveries, with this new infrastructure, and with this success, took on the Payments Integration migration.
• [Google Workspace - Migrated Google Payments Integration to Supported Strategic Stack:] Identified the risk of decades-old unsupported payment integration, which was constraining ~55% feature requests from business. (Could not pre-pay for subscriptions, could not renew or upsell during a subscription period). Delivered a business case highlighting the risk of unsupported integrations, supported by cost of new features blocked on the integration. Worked with partners in Google Payments, Accounting and Finance teams to deliver an updated payments integration within 1 year.

Jun 2017 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore · On-site

• Lead Engineering teams in platform developmnet and support for GDPR, including a team that build the mobile stack. (~40 people)
• [New Mobile Stack:] Built a team that built a replacement mobile stack with upgraded Android SDK.
• [GDPR support:] Delivered GDPR support for the application.

May 2011 – Dec 2016 · 5 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Succesfully lead a multi-year project across 50+ teams at Amazon, launching Points as a Payment Instrument, integrated in Retail and Digital stacks, with full accounting integration and reconciliation.
• [Amazon Points (JP):] 4+ Year project, Worked across 50+ teams in the Digital and Retail stacks, in US, Canada, JP and IN.
• [Points] Seamless migration of 40MM legacy customers.
• [Points] Supported 7x traffic during promotions.
• [Incentives] Built Incentives platform to drive customer behaviours with micro-rewards (Points, or any payment instrument) across multiple dimensions (New to Category, BOGO, Basket Size, Specific Payment Instruments/No COD, Reward for CoBranded Credit Card.
• [Patent] application for handling Multiple Element Arrangement for digital currencies.

Oct 2010 – Apr 2011 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• The BT (British Telecom) office in Bangalore owned technology platforms that supported various lines of BT's business, delivered by outsourced partners. Soumen started with managing the Fulfilment system for the largest line of business, during his first year. He then moved on to becoming the Platform Architect for the Fault Management Workflow platform, for about 2 years. Soumen then went on to act as Platform Director for the Networking Performance Reporting platform for BT.
• The NPR (Network Performance Reporting) platform provides network monitoring services, with active and passive monitoring, using DPI (Deep Packet Inspection). Soumen had responsibility for more than 80 systems, across 4 lines of business for BT, playing a crucial role in the service assurance of guaranteed performance products. There were 26 BT employees across UK, US and India, with about 100+ out-sourced contractors. Soumen owned the development of new strategic systems, while migrating and deprecating legacy stacks. Soumen personally led the accelerated of a Global Call Monitoring System, coordinating across multiple teams to deliver a managed calls service in 1 month, instead of the usual 6 months.

Jul 2007 – Oct 2010 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• As Platform Architect of the Trouble Management Workflow platform, Soumen was responsible for definition and implementation of Standard Capabilities across legacy systems, enabling their replacement with strategic systems. Cost savings of GBP 3MM were implemented by migrating to new strategic systems fronted by Standard Capabilities. As part of an organizational change, End-to-End Designers were moved to Platform Architect's teams, enabling a further cost reduction of GBP 200K. Key systems in the platform were certified to be ITIL-compliant, and enabled Incidents to be managed across systems and lines of business, using the Standard Capability framework.

Jan 2007 – Jul 2007 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Partner in Red Panini, a company focused on providing high quality, reliable software services, aimed at lowering the total cost of development.

May 2006 – Jan 2007 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Soumen joined Yahoo! in 2006, as part of the Y! Media group, with responsibility of extending media properties such as Y! Kids, Y! Video and, most importantly, Y! Games. The goal was to take the games platform to the next level, leveraging the user base, and opening the platform to 3rd party developers, similar to video on YouTube.

Mar 2003 – Apr 2006 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Delivery Owner for partial functionality, responsible for overall technical delivery of internal team and outsourcing partners, interacting with project and requirements managers.

Jan 2000 – Jan 2003 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Soumen was part of the initial engineering team at Liqwid Krystal, and played a key role in building the engineering team. The company focused on learning tools for IT skills, and produced tools for testing, virtualized code execution, and e-book enhancements.
• EBook Reader - Soumen was responsible for the eBook development. This involved converting author data files to docbook compliant xml, and augmenting all the code stubs in the book, such that they could be loaded in our virtual execution environment. This was all packaged and installed over a local web server, with basic encryption. This allowed an author to provide our ebook as an addition to his textbook, and it would allow any code sample to be loaded into our execution environment, where the code could be edited, compiled and run. (This was a key attraction, in that the user did not have to worry about installation of tools, or configuration of paths or classpaths, in order to start learning, it was all managed via our environment.)

Jan 1999 – Jan 2000 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• At Verifone, Soumen was part of the team that worked on their flagship Internet Payment Service, IPS. Soumen was part of the core team formed to convert the monolithic C++ application to enterprise Java. Shortly after joining, Verifone was acquired by HP.

Jan 1998 – Jan 1999 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Soumen worked on training new members in Java, and proto-typing solutions for Proof-of-Concept for projects.
• Trained New Employees on Java.

Jan 1997 – Jan 1998 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• At Novell, Soumen worked in the Network Management area, on the ManageWise tool. He was part of the team that worked on Management Information Base (MIB) tools. The product was re-built in Java, which was in its infancy, at v1.1.3, with new releases every other month.