Led Sling TV's engineering team.Responsible for architecture, engineering and operations of Sling TV's streaming services, subscription platform, AdTech and DISH TV's companion app called DISH Anywhere. Team size of 450 engineers spread across 5 global locations. This includes product development across 18 platforms, services, player, data analytics, ML services, cloud infrastructure, streaming technologies, DVR and Ad Tech platforms.Completed new app roll out in 2021, launched FAST services with 450+ channels and scaled to 3 million MAU, transformed AdTech platform, development of rewards services and modernizing streaming services.

5G takes us to the edge <> Cloud scales us at the edgeResponsible for strategy, planning, architecture and engineering of platform focusing on Cloud (Public, private and Mobile Edge Compute), OS, Container-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-service, CI-CD capability, Network Engineering and CMS. Design and develop workloads that are run in public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP), Private clouds (VMWare, RH, Openstack), Edge clouds, Bare Metal and Managed Cloud Infrastructure. Engaged in CNCF (Cloud Native Compute Foundation) activities, opensource community and technical advisor to Cloud-native start-ups.Objective - Enablement of 5G product suite with web-scale capability.

Leading a software development organization spanning diverse functional areas such as Connected home / IoT software development, Data management platform, Video on demand software development (content ingest, distribution and delivery), AWS Cloud infrastructure management, PaaS, cloud-native solutions development, cloud security and scaling video software products in the field.

* Built and led global organization of 150+ software engineers responsible for managing AWS cloud infrastructure, PaaS, build engineering, integration, testing and rollout of 50+ consumer-facing software applications spanning set-top-box software, video services, VOD systems, portals and email platform, small and medium business portals, TVEverywhere, voice services and Wi-Fi* Software delivery was based on four key principles - microservices architecture, cloud-based services, zero downtime automated deployment pipeline and devops model* Managed AWS Cloud infrastructure and development of PaaS Cloud Services* Implemented continuous integration framework to automate build, deployment and validation at scale to ensure zero down time during releases. Delivered 480 software releases in 18 months with over 98% successful rollouts. (Two releases every three days.)* Defined and implemented quality assurance processes for product validation* Created a Tier-3 support center organization that operates 24 x 7 to support consumer services ensuring service reliability and high availability for all products

2013 - DIRECTV* Led a global Engineering Services organization of 120+ engineers focused on software development and testing in video software, broadcast software, middleware and network engineering space2009 to 2012 - Altice (formerly Cablevision)* Product development for video and advanced advertising products. Became valued partner and leader embedded within Cablevison's development organization* Led development of 15+ mobile apps. Involved in design and delivery of ground breaking "industry first" video streaming products on IP devices (iOS, Android, portals) with rich set-top like features. Led software development of revenue generating services and applications - Remote DVR, advanced advertising, search and discovery, Wi-Fi products and auto sign-in app in collaboration with cable industry’s research lab (CableLabs), Visual voicemail and messaging services apps* Delivered mobile applications for Field Techs to improve efficiencies in the customer experience value chain and automate business processes. Led the end-to-end delivery of mobile apps (iOS and Android), middleware, and web portal for field services management* Developed analytics for advanced advertising products and audience measurements. Created real time traffic models to drive monetization* Generated revenue of $30M+ in 3 yrs. Built an organization of software engineers from 4 in 2009 to 200+ in 20122006 to 2009 - Comcast* Product development for voice services roll-out, Self-install kit, Caller ID on TV, video messaging services and video / advanced advertising products* Business planning and operations for SMB VoIP platform* Led video software team that developed and tested StartOver, Search & Discovery platform, RemoteDVR, residential and hospitality VOD services2005 - 2006 - AOL/NetscapeManaged team of 50+ engineers delivering IT services to develop and test products - dial up and online security products

2005 - Cable & Wireless* Service Activation Solution Development (OSS/BSS)2001 to 2005 - British Telecom* Billing systems development - Designed and developed Unix and C based pricing engine component for billing system1999 to 2001 - Nortel Networks* SS7/ISUP - Designed and Developed voice features - trunk offering, toll break-in and 3-way conferencing on DMS platforms