Defined and executed technology vision of Bombay Live video streaming studios. Executed research of innovative video encoding technologies and expanded award winning studios globally around the world.End-to-end ownership of custom hardware platform architecture and final manufacturing of electronic devices.Technologies implemented in hardware:* PCIe x16 board and standalone video encoder* Video transcoding of 32 parallel streams on a single board* Temporal Noise Reduction with motion estimation* 3D LUT Color Correction with 65-point and 12-bit color support* Chromakey engine with shadow/reflection support and 80-bit XYZ processing* Video streaming protocol with Forward Error Correction* Central management system of encoder clusters and master-slave configurations* AI PyTorch and NNGen accelerator for object detection

As a Chief Architect I designed innovative physically secure crypto hardware wallet incorporating active anti-tamper technologies, SRAM PUF key security and 2 million rounds of SHA-512 passphrase hashing by leveraging custom hardware design. I managed a team of hardware engineers as we tackled the hardest design challenges.

*Low latency UHD video streaming engine*We developed live video streaming server and unique low-latency encoding system with error correction system that ensures flawless UHD/4K video distribution especially when using “bad Internet connections”. It is optimized for live dealer streaming and 3D game streaming taking advantage of the known properties of the live game streams.

*Live Dealer Studio*I designed bespoke high-quality live games studio and managed setting up the live gaming operation from the scratch. It incorporated greenscreen technology for customized 3D environment and table top replacement. Carefully selected camera systems with appropriate lenses provided crystal clear picture in low light conditions and ensured correct color reproduction when shooting slow-motion video. AI card detection system allowed us to use ordinary cards without barcodes and without card scanners. Camera based roulette result detection system worked faster and provided dealer error detection functionality. Dealer training according to the land based casino rules ensured proper high quality game execution.*Live Dealer Game System*As a CTO I managed and participated in the development of 3 different live dealer games and the whole infrastructure that is required to execute these games 24x7. I coordinated the software development, testing and 3D graphics design. This includes dealer app that provides information for the dealer and controls the game execution; video capture, image processing (CUDA) and encoding software; game server (AWS EC2); reporting software; client side game software, chat server/application, etc.

Working as Lead Developer of both Videobet and Playtech live games platform I designed the world largest live casino games studio in Philippines and invented patented video distribution system for gaming terminals. It won the best live gaming product award at ICE London in 2007. It includes real time video encoding, image processing, digital pan-tilt-zoom, distributed video streaming server software, forward error correction and client side seamless video switching. Live Gaming is a unique gaming concept that recreates the thrill of the real casino experience and transports it directly into the user PC or gaming terminals.

As Chief Software Architect I invented the key parts and managed the development of a leading World Wide Web Search Engine (LeiaCrawler). Our high speed 2nd generation distributed search engine was capable of processing nearly 1,000 queries per second (single node) and indexing over 600 million documents with 150 servers running in parallel. The installation at IBM Sweden Kista data center had second largest set of indexed web documents in the world after Google. By using unique proprietary hardware database and indexing accelerator cards we achieved market leading performance with excellent price to performance ratio. Xilinx FPGA hardware accelerator cards were used to compress and merge the indexes and perform special logical operations. Documents were indexed by very fast proprietary database engine.

*** Data Communication Unit - DCU300 ***Each DCU manages the data communication between the AIM Media Server and multiple Local Video Servers. The most common tasks for a DCU to perform are to send MPEG-2 media files and playback schedule information, receive log files, update configuration information and LVS system software. A proprietary File Transfer System is used to achieve extremely fast and absolutely error-free data transfer over Satellite, WAN or LAN.*** MPEG-2 Decoder and Video Insertion Card ***A 32-bit PCI card (based on Zoran chipset) with MPEG-2 decoder and broadcast quality video insertion functionality. The driver for this board utilizes fast DMA transfer, sophisticated interrupt handling and I2C protocol. It includes error correction code and hardware watchdog functionality.

*** BBx/3 to C++ Translator ***Business Basic (BBx/3) to C++ translator. By using advanced data-flow analysis it optimizes and converts Business Basic code into structured and easily readable C++ classes. The system allows conversion of extremely large Basic source code set (over 8MBytes) into several dynamically loadable EXE-files. Tools used: C++, OS/2*** FRIEND programming language ***Compiler, interpreter and runtime library for a C-like programming language. The interpreter uses highly optimized RISC-like micro-code to perform operations very quickly. This makes it internally up to 50 times faster than other widely available interpreters (including Microsoft VB). FRIEND language also contains a large set of portable C++ classes and runtime library functions. Tools used: Watcom C++, Win32, Various Unix platforms.