Srikumar Sankaran

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India26 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led mobile development for Microsoft Teams.
Created SkypeLite for emerging markets.
Pioneered analytics platform at Walmart.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and mobile technology leader with extensive experience in analytics and product development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Mobile DevelopmentEngineering LeadershipProduct DevelopmentData Platform ManagementAnalytics LeadershipAnalytics Platform DevelopmentProduct Pricing StrategySeo StrategyMobile Content DevelopmentVideo TechnologyService ArchitecturePlatform DevelopmentSoftware ArchitectureMobile Application DevelopmentForm ArchitectureNetwork InfrastructureProductization

Other Skills

AndroidiOS developmentEngineering managementProduct designGrowth strategyData analyticsData scienceData processingAnalyticsAlgorithmic pricingCross-functional collaborationSEOFlash content optimizationVideo searchScalable services

About

Experienced technology leader with strengths in building highly successful consumer, enterprise products, building efficient orgs, seeding innovative ideas and translating them into successful products. Proven experience in leading, inspiring brilliant engineers to deliver world class products. Hands on and delivery oriented management style.

Experience

26 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

9 yrs

Current Experience

Microsoft

Partner Group Engineering Manager

Jun 2017 – Present · 9 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Leading the mobile charter for Microsoft Teams. Built and leading the engineering teams that are responsible for the Android, iOS Teams clients, platform efforts, adaptation for device variants, emerging market initiatives and engineering systems.
Prior to this, led the growth initiatives for Skype in emerging markets. Created SkypeLite, a lighter version of Skype on mobile, which is optimized for emerging market network conditions and common device specifications. It has crossed 10M installs and was one of the highly rated Skype clients. Spearheaded multiple growth initiatives like building social loops around SMS insights, guest calling, content integration in Skype.

AndroidiOS developmentEngineering managementProduct developmentMobile developmentEngineering leadership

Hike messenger

Director of Engineering

Oct 2015 – Jun 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bangalore

Built and led the analytics, data platform and data science teams at Hike. Streamlined analytics, data processing pipelines, mobile client instrumentation and data storage. Established data science initiatives for user insights mining, social network analysis and development of prediction models to fuel growth experiments.

Data analyticsData scienceData processingData platform managementAnalytics leadership

@walmartlabs

Principal Engineer, Director of Engineering

Dec 2011 – Oct 2015 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

One of the founding members of @WalmartLabs in India. Founded, built and led the analytics platform which formed the foundation for algorithmic pricing of products, determining the right assortment and overall competitive intelligence for various units within Walmart. The work involved close cross functional collaboration with various business units within Walmart like merchandising, finance, procurement and geographical divisions.

AnalyticsAlgorithmic pricingCross-functional collaborationAnalytics platform developmentProduct pricing strategy

Adobe systems

Senior Computer Scientist, Engineering Manager

Apr 2009 – Dec 2011 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Architect and then manager for the project to improve the SEO friendliness of Flash content. Developed innovative solution to make deep web Flash media content accessible to the search engines. Worked closely with top search engines including Google, Bing and Baidu for integrating the solution into their indexing process. Influenced the way the flash content was authored, tested and analyzed - http://www.adobe.com/devnet/scout/articles/adobe-scout-getting-started.html
Architect for the mobile ‘Lite' version of the Flash. Built for emerging markets, lesser powered devices, this initiative helped in landing multiple OEM partnerships.

SEOFlash content optimizationMobile developmentSEO strategyMobile content development

Veveo

Senior Technical Architect

Feb 2005 – Mar 2009 · 4 yrs 1 mo

Veveo was one of the pioneers in mobile video search, browse and recommendation. Being one of the early formative members of the company, contributed to the growth of the company in various domains. Worked on building scalable services for video deep link extraction, video transcoding, clients for mobile platforms, web, set top box and countless prototypes.

Video searchScalable servicesPrototypingVideo technologyService architecture

Yahoo!

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2004 – Feb 2005 · 8 mos

Worked on the architecture revamp of HotJobs platform.

Platform architectureSoftware engineeringPlatform developmentSoftware architecture

Adobe systems

Computer Scientist

May 2001 – Jun 2004 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Started the evaluation of adobe reader on Symbian platform and made it into a reality. This was the first complete reader release on mobile devices. Formed the basis for further releases.
Led multiple releases of adobe reader on various mobile platforms.
Contributed to Adobe XML Forms Architecture.

Mobile developmentXML Forms ArchitectureMobile application developmentForm architecture