Prem K.

Engineering Manager

Hyderabad, Telangana, India12 yrs 10 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led the development of innovative sports streaming infrastructure at Apple.
  • Achieved multi-million-dollar impact through strategic product management.
  • Pioneered automation solutions enhancing operational efficiency.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Media and Technology professional with expertise in product management and software engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

Team LeadershipProblem SolvingMicroservicesSystem ArchitectureProduct ManagementPersonalizationData PrivacyAgile MethodologiesDistributed Systems

Other Skills

Stakeholder RelationsSystems DesignReactive ProgrammingDebuggingDatabasesTeamworkStakeholder ManagementPrompt EngineeringAutomationNew Product IdeasMarket ResearchUser Experience (UX)BlueprintingFlow ChartsProduct Road Mapping

About

I am a Strategic Innovator with deep roots in technology, specializing in socialization, business strategy development and collaborative execution in teams of any size! At Apple, my work as a Senior Engineer is channeled towards revolutionizing sports streaming through scalable infrastructure and technology innovation. We reformed the infrastructure that enabled the premiere of MLS on TV+, and I played a key role in shipping numerous features, while automating workflows, saving significant manual hours, and enhancing the quality of sports data. My expertise in developing new pipelines and generating automated imagery for events has been instrumental in pioneering the MLS 360 format. Previously, as a Product Manager working with cross-teams data management, I addressed privacy process bottlenecks, identifying 3 solutions with a multi-million-dollar impact. This role required closely working with Product and Program Managers, while collaborating with Engineering and Legal teams. The organization benefits from my strategic approach to problem-solving and my ability to streamline complex operations. I strongly believe in fostering a culture of innovation, for "sum is greater than parts". I've contribute to building frameworks that redefine video experiences. My sense of purpose, aligned with Apple's mission, my work embodies the pursuit of excellence and the vision to deliver products that resonate with a global audience, always prioritizing "Customer Privacy and Engagement".

Experience

12 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
6 yrs 2 mos
Current Experience

Apple

4 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Nov 2025Present · 7 mos

  • Leading India team to develop solutions for complex  business challenges using state-of-the-art technologies. Responsible for solving business challenges across the globe, fully accountable for the EMEIA region!
Team LeadershipProblem SolvingStakeholder Relations

Product Manager,  Data analytics & Privacy (Boomerang)

Sep 2022Dec 2022 · 3 mos

  • Worked closely with the team responsible for defining specs of the data getting into Apple ecosystem for a variety of services including TV, Fitness, Music, App Store and others!
  • + Discovered a privacy bottleneck worth 70M+, accounted to with saving 50+ hours for engineering, product and program managers, per week
  • + Innovated a solution & put it on the roadmap to streamline the privacy reviewal process
  • + Generated source of truth indices for privacy approvals to happen efficiently
  • + Devised multiple strategies, socialized and prioritized among them to find an effective feasible solution for multiple feature development bottlenecks
New Product IdeasBlueprintingFlow ChartsData PrivacyProduct Management

Product Strategy,  TV (personalization, discovery & engagement)

Nov 2021Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • + Conducted market research to find insights to customer needs and led their representation while coming up with solutions (evaluation and ideation of blue ocean ideas)
  • + Worked with seasoned product managers to identify real-time problems and evaluate strategies for TV personalization and social segment development
  • + Ideated and created prototypes for TV's product roadmap proposal
  • + Dream of developing strategies to fulfill streaming needs globally
PersonalizationNew Product IdeasMarket ResearchProduct ManagementUser Experience (UX)

Technical Lead,  TV and Sports

Apr 2020Nov 2025 · 5 yrs 7 mos

  • As a SME for media metadata within Apple's ecosytem, and a Technical Lead for Apple TV and Sports projects, I resolve challenges (technical and non-technical) for shipping of new Apple experiences. I develop pipelines to onboard sporting events, create workflows and find opportunities to automate components in order to catalyze efficiency. Several of these automations are based on strategies of extraction and enrichment of metadata across entity types (text / image / video). These data models act as a Source of Truth for media across Apple services.
  • We shipped a multi-year project of a new 2.0 Backend infrastructure building a deeply interconnected knowledge graph, that would provide efficient metadata lookups for *media metadata across Apple services.
  • Core Contributions:
  • + developed and enhanced metadata workflows to enable features catering to new TV experience for 2.5 years, owing 1/3 components of the processing pipeline
  • + innovated and rolled out multiple media features for internationalization, with data-backed strategies and implementing state-of-the-art algorithms
  • + delivered a ML solution to increase strategical accuracy of 1M shows with 10M+ episodes, by over 85% and reduce manual efforts, working closely with a data science expert
  • + redesigned the core distributed micro-services infrastructure for a performant system enabling new data correlations, working in a brilliant engineering team of 6-11 people over the period of 2.5 years - filled any gaps that showed up, in order to make multi-phase delivery happen!
  • + managed multiple multi-team wide media-service releases, from 50+ contributors, set up alerting mechanisms and put infrastructure for anomaly detection in place for cross-cutting layer
  • + recognized for social team leadership - initiated, led and presented at Lunch n Learn program across verticals
MicroservicesSystem ArchitectureProblem SolvingSystems DesignReactive ProgrammingDebugging+5

Epic

Software Engineer @ MyChart

May 2019Apr 2020 · 11 mos · Greater Madison Area · On-site

  • The Highlight: Cut down time in scheduling of appointments for patients on an app serving 100M+ users, by eliminating patient churn, improved screen readers' functionalities and added just-in-place widgets!
  • 1. Optimized the scheduling workflow for new users by adding in-flow user education and eliminating context switch times, enabling adoption of the flow by 17 new hospitals! Co-delivered a time critical 'workflow remodeling' engineering project with 4 social feedback
  • 2. Performed immersion trips to 3 hospitals, identified gaps and ways to improving health care in minute of details. Identified Opportunities / enhancements for evolving Epic's software!
  • 3. Organized enrichment sessions for the team, solving problems with AI ML in healthcare
  • Technology Used: Cache DB (M), Javascript, C#, Handlebars, XML, CSS, SVN
  • Skills applied: Critical thinking, Product Design, Team enrichment, Customer research, Automation, Optimization
Product Road MappingNew Product IdeasAgile MethodologiesDatabasesProblem SolvingProduct Management

Stealth startup

Co-Founder & CTO

Oct 2018May 2019 · 7 mos · Lansing, Michigan, United States · Remote

  • In my role as Co-Founder and CTO at RankUP Games, I took on the development of a mobile gaming platform that would bring wager-risk induced thrill to casual mobile gamers.
  • Hiring a freelance engineer, I drove the engineering, and product roadmap, specifically the payments integration, ensuring compliance and data security standards, orchestrated capital influx flows and integrated several monetization features such as bets.
  • I developed user communication strategies - designed reward systems, and conducted market research to enhance user experience and engagement.
New Product IdeasBlueprintingAgile MethodologiesTechnology RoadmappingProduct Management

Inmobi

Senior Software Engineer

May 2018Apr 2019 · 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Led a Zero to One project with soup to nuts ownership of the Audience Data Marketplace. Conceptualized, gathered the requirements, designed system blueprints, drove the implementation, handled the market deployment with a team of 2 engineers. Led the analysis, upgrades and enhancements of the product.
  • Built a look-alike segment creation engine enabling advertisers to target the right users based on successful campaigns, working with a tech lead. Optimised the pipeline as the data multi-folded.
  • Took periodic ownership of maintaining data ingestion pipelines for multiple third party providers sending data chunks in order of TBs per day. The data ingested into the customer data platform was used to profile and smartly target users for advertisement.
  • Technical Skills: Java, Spring, Azure, Scala, Hadoop, Spark, Storm, Falcon, Oozie, Yarn, Pig, Git, Maven
  • Skills: Ownership, Team Leadership, Communication, People Management, Delegation
Distributed SystemsSoftware DesignProduct ManagementJavaMachine Learning

Zeta india

2 roles

Engineering Manager, TL - Android Client

Promoted

May 2017May 2018 · 1 yr · Bengaluru Area, India

  • 400% increase in app installs to reach 4Lac+ users with over 80k DAU while I diligently monitored and took agile steps to ensure the stability, reliability, performance and security of the app with my team of 5 people
  • Empowered app to effectively function with different PPI issuers- Sodexo, RBL, IDFC & Kotak by redesigning the app, providing a granular control on user action and communication items
  • Reduced the app latencies by 70% with apt application of multithreading techniques throughout the app
  • Brought down the network communication to 24% of the initial exchange using the observer pattern
  • Enabled app integration with multiple security-prudent firms by development of a generic interface for the user authentication flow under an acute deadline
  • Led the complete SDLC of the app including spec definition, API designing, implementation, maintenance, testing and analysis, taking the accountability to the Nth degree
  • Technical Skills: Android, Git, ECDH cryptography, Design Patterns, Retrofit (RESTful http client)
  • Skills: Leadership, Conflict Resolution, Creative Thinking, Communication, People Management, Delegation, Motivation

Software Engineer

Jun 2015May 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Zeta, the nimble business unit of Directi, is focussed on disrupting corporate benefits and rewards space for employees.
  • 1. 'Outstanding performer' for both the financial years : 2015-16, 2016-17
  • 2. Deployed 3 versions of the Zeta app with completely revamped themes, providing the control of staggered feature rollout & a dynamic kill-switch support
  • 3. Enforced safeguarding of user data by incorporating reliable authentication and communication techniques using asymmetric encryption, hashing, certificates and obfuscation
  • 4. Facilitated revenue generation from user expense management by creating a framework for dynamic offers and in-app stores with payment redirection funnel
  • 5. Enabled collaboration with multiple businesses and growth of app users from scratch to 1 Lac+ by conceptualizing, developing and shipping out of features reliably in an aggressive product pipeline
  • 6. Built money inflow & outflow flows using credit/debit cards, net-banking, bank transfers and UPI, ensuring reliable payment and proper user communication
  • Administered end to end design, integration and deployment of complete feature-set of a scalable issuer-based SuperCard in app that later redefined the effluence of payments from the wallet. Enabled control of dynamic view rendering on shipped clients by the development and enhancement of an in-house client’s layout engine. Developed the feature support for online and offline payments using shareable secret code & QRCode to Zeta on-boarded merchants creating a user and a merchant app. Enhanced the user experience which led to many positive reviews, based on the research and analysis of data on application acceptance and user feedback. Integrated several web views in the app with the support of continuous interaction with clients using an in-house developed bridge.
  • Technical Skills: Android, Java, Git, Dagger (Dependency Injection framework), Design Patterns, Asymmetric Cryptography
  • Skills: Feature ownership, Prioritization, Roadmapping

Samsung electronics

Research And Development Engineer

Jan 2015May 2015 · 4 mos · Noida

  • Automated the report generation process used for teams' assessment by HQ team and eliminated the routine work by developing a Perforce toolkit. The toolkit took in the login details of a user/team, managed auth and generated a well formatted report workbook from the same. It provides options using which users can generate unified reports on data from multiple servers, make selective date-range query, select data from or directly use previously captured information and choose what information to include in the workbook.
  • Designed a cron-runner script for auto-syncing and building of the codebases for the Multimedia team that resulted in saving of 10+ dev hours per week.
  • Technical Skills: Shell Script, Python, Perl, C++
  • Skills: Product Ideation, Team collaboration, Presentation

Works applications

Research & Development of Data Tracking System

Dec 2014Dec 2014 · 0 mo · Tokyo, Japan

  • Researched and designed the blueprint of the data tracking system for an e-commerce website.
  • Created a demo for an external client, on data transmission from the website to the third party users, data testing at their end and designing of a basic data analyzer for the website.
  • Technology Used: Java, Servlets, SVN, HTML

Acm, association for computing machinery

2 roles

Vice President

Promoted

May 2014Apr 2015 · 11 mos · BIT Mesra

  • Drove students towards developing practical computer science skills in a team of 10 elite technology enthusiasts
  • Led workshops for freshmen and sophomores of the college mentoring them about programming paradigms, expectations from the college interviews, requisites for starting a career as a Software Engineer.
  • Hosted and set questions for programming & hackathon events held during college technical festival which had active participation from candidates from over 50 colleges.

Technical Trainer

May 2013Apr 2014 · 11 mos · BIT Mesra

  • Mentored 2 freshmen teams (each of size 3) for an year guiding through multiple CS projects
  • Lead workshops and training sessions on several key topics of computer programming including graphs, recursion, dynamic programming and game theory covering sections of the workshop with 2 other ACM members.

Playzio

Software Developer Internship

May 2014Jul 2014 · 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Developed new features for a game on iOS & Android based on MVCS Robotlegs framework
  • Integrated air native extensions - Admob, Chartboost, IAP, Offerwall in the game
  • Created UI layout design for multiple screens
  • Added localization of texts in 7 different languages.
  • Technology Used: ActionScript, MXML, Git, Adobe AIR Native Extensions

Education

Wharton Executive Education

Global Leader CXO — Leadership & Strategy

Dec 2023Dec 2024

Harvard Online

Strategic Management

Jan 2022Jan 2022

Product School

Cohort Learning — Product Management

Nov 2021Feb 2022

Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Computer Science and Engineering

Jawahar Vidya Mandir, Shyamali

High School

M.K.D.A.V. Public School, Chianki

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