
• Engineering and Product Leader with experience building, leading and nurturing healthy and competitive orgs that conceptualize, design, develop and maintain complex and large scale software and firmware (frontend & backend) for AI / ML, Audio / Video / Games streaming, technologies like MPEG-4, H.264, H.265, IPTV, Middleware, Video Encryption / Decryption, Conditional Access, DRM, VOD, live, webRTC, content delivery, carrier grade Consumer Electronics Embedded Systems / devices, 5G / LTE / Telecom and (Industrial) IoT. • Hands-on AI/ML for detecting faults, failures, anomaly detection, GenAI, LLM, RAG for AI Agent development. • Designed and developed firmware for Embedded Systems like Automotive ECUs, IoT Hub / Gateway, SDWAN Gateway, Edge Nodes, SetTop box, Mobiles, Tablets and TVs • Experience on PlayReady and Marlin DRM with MPEG-DASH, Microsoft Smooth and Apple HLS for VOD and multi-screen OTT service. • Multiple years of experience on Embedded Systems Security, TEE ( OP-TEE, Trusted Logic ) based on Global Platform spec, ARM TrustZone, Secure boot, Encrypted boot, bootloader, full-disk encryption, DMCrypt, LUKS, UEFI, chain of trust, secure OTA, Intrusion detection ( static signature based and dynamic ML based Anomaly detection) • Engineering and Product leader with experience in conceptualizing, planning, budgeting, leading the development, deploying and maintaining complex projects. Working with and as part of executive management to lead the company's technical and product roadmap. • Extensive hands-on work on Yocto framework used to generate Operating System Distro. • Lead teams designing hardware and developing firmware for SDN (SD-WAN) based CPEs, Switches and routers catering to 1000s of customers. • Multiple years of hands on exp on Backend / server side developing and deploying webservices for cloud-native , hybrid and on-prem deployments using various technologies like Spring, javascript, groovy/grails, python and using RDBMS, NO-SQL databases like cockroachDB, caches like redis and mapreduce, message queues like RabbitMQ, Kafka . • Sun Certified Programmer for JAVA2 Platform • Worked with international clients and partners in China, India, France, UK, Greece, Japan, Korea and Israel • Prog Languages : C, C++, Rust, Go, Python, Java, JavaScript • Technologies : AI/ML, LLM, LLMOps, Tensorflow, PyTorch, Hugging face, RCNN, PCIe, RoCE, Infiniband, Jupyter Notebook, RAG, MPEG, H.264, H.265, MPEG-DASH, Gstreamer, DRM, RTSP, webRTC, ZigBee, Zwave, ReactJS, AWS, Terraform, networking, SDWAN, Virtualization, neural networks
wiline.com
cognomotiv.ai
samsung.com
intertrust.com
pioneerelectronics.com
tcs.com
bit.ly
Palo Alto, California, United States
SVP of Engineering
Pando Electric
• www.linkedin.com/company/pando-electric
Oct 2024 - Present
San Jose, California, United States
Mentor to Students at San Jose State University
IDEAS at SJSU
• www.linkedin.com/company/ideassjsu
May 2018 - Present
San Francisco Bay Area
Founder
CoPilotAgent.AI
May 2024 - Present
VP of Engineering
WiLine Networks
• www.linkedin.com/company/wiline-networks
Jan 2020 - Apr 2024
San Mateo, California, United States
Engineering Leader
Cognomotiv
• www.linkedin.com/company/cognomotiv
Jan 2019 - Nov 2019
San Francisco Bay Area
Founder and Engineer
PassPass
Jul 2017 - Dec 2018
Director of Engineering
Samsung Electronics America
• www.linkedin.com/company/samsung-electronics-america
Dec 2014 - Jun 2017
San Francisco Bay Area
Senior Software Engineer
NDS
Jan 2004 - Dec 2006
Embedded Systems Engineer
N R Technology
Jul 2002 - Dec 2003
activevideo.com
ge.com