Pradip Gajjar

CTO

San Francisco, California, United States21 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in designing scalable algorithms for media applications.
  • Proven leadership in engineering teams at top tech companies.
  • Extensive experience in cloud computing and distributed systems.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with expertise in Media and Cloud Computing.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingSoftware DevelopmentDistributed SystemsAlgorithmsEmbedded SystemsNetwork Software Development

Other Skills

Distributed ComputingLarge Scale System Software ArchitectureSoftware Performance AnalysisVideo TranscodingVideo EncodingAWSC++JavaPythonVideo IdentificationCLinuxMobile Multimedia Application DevelopmentMultimedia CodecVoIP

About

Specialties: Designing & Developing new Algorithms for complex real world problems, Distributed Computing, Large Scale System Software Architecture, Cloud Computing, Video Transcoding, Software Performance Analysis & Improvement, Network Software Development, Mobile Multimedia OEM Development, Data Structures, Algorithms, Programming (Java, Scala, C, C++, Ruby, PHP), Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, AWS, SQS, S3, RTOS, Linux, VoIP, SIP, IMS, RTP, RTCP, RTSP, Multimedia Codec(HEVC, H264, H263, MPEG4, AMR, AAC).

Experience

21 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
13 yrs 1 mo
Current Experience

Apple

Software Engineering Manager

Apr 2013 – Present · 13 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Engineering Leader - Apple Services (iTunes, Apple TV+, Apple TV Channels, Apple Music, Apple Fitness+, App Store)
  • Key projects my team has contributed to playing an essential role in launching:
  • iTunes Extras for Apple TV and iOS (2014)
  • Apple Trailers (2015)
  • iTunes Video in China (2015)
  • App Store for Apple TV (2015)
  • HLS Streaming for iTunes Video (2016)
  • 4K and HDR Movies and TV for Apple TV (2017)
  • App Store Editorial Videos (2018)
  • Apple TV Channels (2019)
  • Apple Arcade (2019)
  • Apple TV+ (2019)
  • Apple Fitness+ (2020)
  • Apple Music Spatial Audio (2021)
  • Apple TV+ Friday Night Baseball (2022)
  • Apple TV+ Major League Soccer (2023)
  • Apple Vision Pro (2023)
Distributed ComputingLarge Scale System Software ArchitectureCloud ComputingSoftware Performance AnalysisVideo TranscodingSoftware Development

Netflix

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2009 – Apr 2013 · 3 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Design & Develop highly scalable distributed parallel transcoding system.
  • Design & Develop innovating video encoding tools set.
  • AvxSynth - Open-source project for empowering Linux world with AviSynth toolkit.
  • Timed-text transcoding toolset Development.
  • Design & Develop Media Pipeline video processing highly scalable infrastructure.
  • Extensive development around AWS, SQS, S3.
  • C++, Java, Python, Linux, AWS, SQS, S3, Cassandra.
Distributed SystemsVideo EncodingAWSC++JavaPython+1

Zeitera llc (acquired by sony)

Lead Engineer - Product Development

Jan 2007 – Dec 2009 · 2 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Design & Development for fingerprint based video identification & search system.
  • Design of new algorithms.
  • Real time stream (SDI Card) based video & audio fingerprint and search design and development.
  • Large scale real time distributed search system.
  • Search Sytem performance improvement.
  • Video Fingerprint & search client design and development for embedded device.
  • Multithreaded video fingerprint solution.
  • REST based web services design & development.
  • C, C++, OOP, Linux, GDB, GProf, Valgrind, PHP, RUBY, MySQL.
Video IdentificationAlgorithmsCC++LinuxSoftware Development

Samsung india software operations

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2005 – Dec 2006 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Qualcomm TV OEM Layer development.
  • Mobile Multimedia Application Design & Development.
  • ISDB-T OEM Layer Development.
  • Multimedia Codec (H.264, MPEG4, AMR, AAC, 3GP).
  • Media Application Protocols (RTP, RTCP, RTSP)
  • C, C++, Trace-32 Debugger, Samsung Handset Platform.
Mobile Multimedia Application DevelopmentMultimedia CodecCC++Software DevelopmentEmbedded Systems

Motorola

Software Engineer

Jun 2004 – Jan 2005 · 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • 3GPP IP Multimedia Subsystem Server Development.
  • RFC-3261 SIP Protocol Development.
  • VoIP Application Development for P-CSCF Server.
  • SH-Interface Design and Development between HSS & CSG (Converged Services Gateway)
  • Seamless Mobility Server (Converged Services Gateway - CSG) Development.
  • C, C++, Linux, GDB, Postgres, Perforce.
VoIPSIP ProtocolCC++Software DevelopmentNetwork Software Development

Education

International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

Postgraduate Degree — Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Gujarat University

Bachelor of Engineering — Computer Science

Nirma Institute of Technology

BE — Computer Science

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