Satheesh Subramanian Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Mateo, California, Us

London, Gb

* Reporting to the CTO & EVP, built the BlippAR Augmented Reality Platforms team with responsibilities of Product and Engineering Management. Responsible for launch of the India development center for Blippar. Delivered technical due diligence for acquisitions and investor presentations. AR Platform products account for nearly 80% of Blippar revenues through Self-Service SaaS platform and expansion into AR display ads. * Managed a cross-site team (40+ members) consisting of product managers, engineering managers and engineers - covering technologies across Mobile Engineering (iOS, Android), Computer Vision and Real-time Graphics (3D Tracking, WebGL), Web Frontend (React, Angular, ThreeJs), Backend (Go, Python, AWS), DevOps (Docker, Rancher, AWS), Big Data Pipeline (AWS Redshift, EMR, Kinesis) and Test Engineering. * Responsible for the AR platforms roadmap for the platform products - Blippar App, Blippar AR SDK, BlippBuilder AR creation tool, Mobile AR Ads and Scalable backend services for the Blippar platform (Accounts, Publishing, Payments, Asset delivery, Data Analytics). Worked closely with other departments – Sales, Finance, Legal and Marketing to define and achieve product and revenue KPIs.* Created a strong engineering culture focused on agile development with emphasis on automation and continuous deployment. Managed team and individual performance through multiple rounds of staff expansion and reduction.

Glendale, Ca, Us

* Built the first off-shore R&D team for DreamWorks Animation in India, from ground up to a strong 20 member team spanning many areas - Animation & Lighting Tools, High Performance Scalable Web Services, Large Scale Content Data Pipeline, Distributed Renderfarm management, Developer Productivity and Test Engineering (QA).* Engaged hands-on in delivering key projects. Notable projects delivered include - i) an automatic way to transfer motion capture data to hand animated characters, ii) a high throughput logging system built on big data technologies such as Kafka, Storm and Elasticsearch, built to handle close to 5 billion logs and 10TB of data per day iii) a hierarchical build dependency auditing tool iv) a scalable distributed workflow automation system.* Created a lean recruiting strategy that reduced recruiting lead times by 25x and non-value add costs by 8x resulting in creating an efficient channel for hiring high caliber engineers. Started the R&D internship program that attracts talent from India’s top engineering schools. Established university relationships through guest lectures and recruiting drives.* Delivered performance reviews, mentored and inspired the team to challenge themselves to be creative, innovative and process oriented. Provided technical training to the team across a wide range of technologies. * Influenced studio executive management and production stakeholders to develop lean processes and championed the lean production pipeline implementation through software solutions. Fostered a culture of test driven development.* Assisted studio executive management (General Manager) to formulate employee career progression and retention strategies across technology departments.Movie Credits: Rise of the Guardians (2012), Turbo (2013), Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2013), How To Train Your Dragon 2 (2014), Penguins of Madagascar (2014)

Glendale, Ca, Us

* Managed a scrum team of 7 engineers in US and contractors in Argentina to deliver NxG Character Technologies as part of the “Premo” Animation Tools team. * Developed a patent-pending technique to match arbitrary skeletal hierarchies in arbitrary space that eliminate the need to inject custom solvers into the rig and opens up the doors for arbitrary motion retargeting.* Developed new skeletal and deformation models for characters that reduced the character rig complexity by 25x. These are presently being in used in 5 ongoing productions and all future DWA productions.* Worked closely with Character TDs across all productions to collect and review production requirements for operators that would use and manipulate the newly created models and manage the developer resources to deliver the operator implementations to production.Movie Credits: Megamind, Kung Fu Panda 2, Puss In Boots, Madagascar 3,

Glendale, Ca, Us

* Developed a python framework (actionflow) to create workflow automation of repetitive artist tasks that was designed and later adopted as the studio standard for implementing lean production systems. * Provided guidance for pipeline technical leads for extending the framework to be executed on a compute farm. * Implemented an infrastructure library for representing and managing scatters (instancing) in the pipeline. Delivered python bindings for TDs to use for integrating the scatter generation through out the pipeline. * Developed custom Maya shape node for high-speed GL rendering in the Maya scene view using hardware acceleration through use of VBOs, Index Buffers and texture atlases. Experimented with using Unreal Engine and Offset Game Engine for Previz. .* Developed custom Maya plugins for the Intersense Tracking system and optimized it for a proprietary virtual camera environment. This system reduced the rough layout artists’ turnaround time for layout camera curvesMovie Credits: Monsters vs Aliens, How to Train your Dragon

* Developed a cross-platform mobile app using Appcelerator Titanium with a cloud (Google App Engine) backend for providing a social CRM platform for movie reviews, trailer feedback, rewards management.

Santa Clara, California, Us

• Managed Graphics SDK development showcasing Intel Graphics capabilities through demos and samples. Mentored and guided Application Engineers to adapt graphics research to create compelling demos. • Implemented multi-threaded real-time Shadow Maps, Shadow Volumes and Cloth Simulation sample applications for the Graphics SDK using DX9 and HLSL.• Owned the product definition, project management and software architecture of the laptop gaming TDK that is currently used in nearly 22 game titles including AAA titles like EA Sims Life Stories, CodeMasters RD3 and Crysis.• Performed project/product management tasks including presenting investment and implementation plan to executive staff, project planning, technical design, QA planning, identifying marketing requirements and working with legal. Managed a team of 3 engineers to develop the toolkit, presented technical disclosures to external vendors and led technical and project planning decision-making.

Santa Clara, California, Us

• Handled GUI and core framework development and large-scale visualizations for the in-house CAD tools as part of a 12-member team. Supervised a team of 5 developers to produce quick graphical editing solutions that resulted in a high productivity gain for the Pentium4 microprocessor design team.• Developed an integrated spreadsheet framework with database support for the enterprise VLSI CAD solution, rich with features including support for MySQL backend, some of which are not even supported by MS Excel. Most microprocessor design teams are currently using this tool, providing nearly 10x time savings for design verification.• As the key contact person from the tools team to the Xeon processor design team in Bangalore, India, interacted with customers across time zones and cultures, coordinate tool releases and provided consultation on tool impact on design methodologies.

Chicago, Il, Us

• Built possibly the world's first Social VR experience for the users of the CAVE™ virtual reality system. As part of a research team at the EVL, inventors of the CAVE™ virtual reality system, researched video-based techniques for image-based modeling and rendering in collaborative virtual environments (VEs). The aim was to provide real world experience to users in virtual worlds by using the video of the user in the virtual reality system to animate the 3D model of the user through video feature extraction and mapping.• Combined multiple technologies like computer graphics, networking, A/V streaming and computer vision to come up with a very simple, yet powerful solution to the problem of realistic collaboration in virtual environments.• This work was presented as a sketch in SIGGRAPH 2001, the graphics and entertainment industries’ most prestigious conference

• Developed image-based modeling plug-ins for MultiGen Creator Product team to model terrain from images.

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

• Developed a real-time 3D graphics modeling and extraction tool that was used as a plugin in the entertainment industry-leading Alias/Maya software for converting traditional high-density polygonal geometry into low-polygon count models for use in games.• Developed a framework for creating exporters from any 3D file format to any other 3D file format through a highly efficient intermediate 3D scene graph.• Over 10,000 lines of code was designed, written and completely tested within 3 weeks, emphasizing the importance of use of automated OO design and QA tools. This was a logistical challenge that was executed with very high quality and well within the deadlines.

Masters, Business Administration

Ms, Computer Science (Computer Graphics And Virtual Reality)

M.Sc(Hons) Mathematics, B.E (Hons) Computer Science