Pallav Samaddar

CEO

Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India21 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

16+ years in rich media technology.
Expertise in next-generation video products.
Proven track record in product management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Media Technology Expert with extensive experience in product management and video streaming solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementProject ManagementContent StrategyTechnology ManagementMedia Production

Other Skills

ActionScriptAdobe PhotoshopAir Desktop and Device ApplicationsContent ManagementContent acquisitionContent managementContent processingContent strategiesData analysisDeveloping music playerDigital MediaDigital VideoFlashHTMLHTML 5

About

My 16+ years of rich media technology experience, along with 8 years of Product Management experience. Currently working at TIL's central video & research team for next-generation video products. Specialisations: • Planning, organising, and supervising processes • Ensuring and overlooking the plannings & developments • Responsible for planning, executing, and closing projects • Requirements analysis • Product supervision • Team management • Processes optimization for maximum efficiency • Optimizing product features & benefits • Project operations management • Sound understanding of latest technologies • Content Programming, Content Strategies & Content Acquisition • Latest video technologies (MPEG Dash, HLS, HDS, WebRTC) & Transcoding Techniques • DRM Technologies (Adobe Access, PlayReady, WideWine & Marlin) • Secure content delivery • Use web analytics, research reports, market trends and statistics data to make better roadmap decisions, site engagement metrics & create a better user experience • Identifying product and growth metrics that fit our business • Expertise in VOD, Podcast, Low Latency Live Streaming, Simulive and Simulcast

Experience

21 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

7 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

16 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Times internet

4 roles

Head of Product (General Manager) - OTT Platform

Promoted

May 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 1 mo

Product Lead (GM) - OTT Platform

Jan 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 5 mos

Planning, organising, and supervising processes
Ensuring and overlooking the plannings & developments
Responsible for planning, executing, and closing projects
Make sure that a business is running as smoothly and efficiently as possible
Requirements analysis
Breaking high-level tasks into sub-tasks with pm's & tech-leads
Puts roadmap plans into workable action plans
Task prioritization
Product supervision
Data & product analysis
Monitoring clients product health
Team management
Processes optimization for maximum efficiency
Optimizing product features & benefits
Make customer feedback to our most strategic asset
Project operations management
Understand clients requirements & put into workable action plans

PlanningOrganisingSupervising processesRequirements analysisProduct supervisionTeam management+4

Product Manager - BoxTV

Jun 2013 – Dec 2016 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Product
Product features and roadmap development
Use data to make better roadmap decisions & create a better user experience
Identify the most popular features with all pages
Coordinate and give technical support to all our platform partners (Samsung,
LG, Panasonic, Amazon & more), content-partners, SEO-team, ad-tech team
and sales team
Effective execution of all the requirements came from business, sales, ad-
tech, SEO team, platform partners
New RND’s for technology updates
Adding new features in media player like swipe gesture control, encrypted
downloadable content for offline playback and desktop hybrid media player
Team management
Content
Heading BoxTV content from May 2016
Content processing (Movies, TV Shows and DRM protected content)
Securing network content
Content Management & Programming
Content acquisition
Content strategies
Planning and execution of Push-Notifications, mailers, social-media updates
Handles all legal issues with our legal experts at TOI
SPOC for content partners and platform partners

Product features developmentData analysisTechnical supportContent managementContent acquisitionContent strategies+2

Technology Manager - Gaana.com

Jan 2010 – Jun 2013 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Gaana.com (Founder employee)
Developed music player for web, which is the core element of Gaana.com, with less then .3 sec start-time
Designed a highly secure platform for media streaming
Product features and roadmap development for web
Developed Gaana.com from scratch
Content processing in multiple bitrates, ranging from 16kbps to 320kbps audio streams
Integration of Radio Mirchi channels in Gaana
Worked closely with ad-tech teams for revenue growth
IPL 4 (2011) to IPL 7 (2014) Official Online Streaming
Developed IPL VOD & Live video player
Interactive video streaming player with boundaries & wickets timeline (in seekbar) during a live match. Using which, a user can see the replay of all important match events.
Responsible for coordination with satellite downlink team and online pre-match commentary team for seamless match broadcast.
The Times Of India - Cricket
Designed and developed the fastest scorecard for TOI cricket. Also developed cricket scorecards for NBT, MT and ET
Developed many cricket widgets like interactive schedules, points table, graphical interactive charts for partnerships & balling analysis, fielding and batting wagon-wheel etc. (Analysis data provided by 3rd party vendor)
TOI Live Streaming site : live.indiatimes.com
It's an online streaming site for TOI's live TV news streaming / telecast of Times Now, ET Now and Zoom TV.
Developed live streaming player
Responsible for all live streaming related issues & enhancements, like stream
configurations, monetization etc.
ZOOM TV
VOD player development and enhancements
Video monetization
All kind of technical support
Manage live streaming & new requirements in any live event
MaharashtraTimes and NavbharatTimes
Developed fastest cricket scorecards, widgets, scorecards desktop applications
EconomicTimes
Developed interactive widgets and calculators

Developing music playerMedia streamingContent processingIntegration of channelsLive video player developmentTechnology Management+1

Network 18

Technology Manager - News18

Feb 2006 – Jan 2010 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

news18.com (Formerly Known as ibnlive.com)
Live TV streaming and live streaming for special events in studios, like
celebrity/ minister chats etc. the entire setups (camera, server and media
player) was done by me
Tech support to web, sales & TV
Tech support for ads-sales team
Monetization policies
Video player enhancements
Scorecard development for cricketnext.com
Interactive maps for IBN elections
CJ (Citizen Journalist) interactive application, where user can record
audio/video and upload it to our system for online and TV
Developed interactive application for elections, which has an accurate party and
candidate data from 1970 to that time
Interactive applications as daily editorial requirements
CricketNext.com (The domain is now merged into news18.com)
Developed the fastest cricket scorecard at that time
Wagon wheel
Ball by ball graphs
Batting Analysis graphs
Fielding Analysis graphs
Scorecard desktop applications
in.com Music
Developed robust audio player for web, with less then .3 sec start-time
Designed a highly secure content delivery platform for media playback
Developed interactive karaoke application
Radio station streaming (Podcast, Icecast)
Worked closely with ad-tech teams for revenue growth
khabar.ibnlive.com
Responsible for all tech & ad-tech requirements
All Media Player requirements
Live Streaming
Live Cricket Scorecard
Interactive widgets during elections & budget
MTVindia (Formerly Known mtv.in.com but now it's mtvindia.com)
Splits Villa
Roadies
Ecolution
moneycontrol.com
Developed interactive widgets and chat modules