Viswanath Ananth Email & Phone Number

United States

San Francisco Bay Area

Responsible for business objectives, execution and KPIs of elevated personalized experience of watching TV. Lead and manage teams across Seattle, Sunnyvale and Chennai to deliver the ultimate personalized watch feed based on customer watch patterns using ML models. Experience with collaborative filtering in production for personalization and recommendations.-- Successfully led a large effort to build continue watching experience architecture at scale, with high rate data ingestion, processing and recommendations that empowered relevancy in content recommendations across apps.-- Built a dynamic engaging home screen experience with revamped ranking architecture at scalable across 300M+ catalog items and 100's of SVOD and TVOD apps.-- Launched multiple experiences via experimentation that grew FireTV's traffic by > 2x.-- Directed a strong geolocated team of managers, SDEs, applied scientists, and machine learning engineers across Seattle, Sunnyvale and Chennai and built features like trending, app_peeks-- Owned components in feed generation, MLOps infrastructure, experimentation framework, and recommender systems. Audited & improved operational health through advocating DevOps practices & principles. Examples include reducing off-hours on-call by 25%.-- Collaborated and influenced cross-functionally, (PM, TPM, legal, marketing), cross-organizationally (Prime Video, Alexa, Ads) and externally (YouTube, Hulu, Apple). Identified risks, provided strategic recommendations and project status to key stakeholders up to VP level executives. -- Led product innovations that enabled double digit growth for existing businesses.Tech stack: Java, S3, Dynamo, Elastic Search, Sagemaker, Spark, Athena, Quicksight, Ranking, Docker, EC2,Glue,Kinesis

San Jose

Senior Engineering leader for Intersight Cloud Orchestration platform leading 25+ across multi geo site senior tech talent and managers. My team is responsible for RAS of infrastructure automation from Intersight at scale.- Responsible for defining the roadmap of Intersight Cloud orchestration that enables customers to automate operational tasks without writing code- Improved user experience (for 100k+ SMEs) with personalized objective screens. Charter focused on overall experience for end users with easy infrastructure automation generating resulted in revenue 10x in FY16~17.- Built partnership with cross functional leaders to create, drive technical strategy and roadmap for unified hypervisor management and kubernets as service from Intersight. - Partnered with Principal Engineers to build the fanout on write architecture to serve thousands of multi-tenanted connected device automation at scale while increasing QPS and throughput by more than 100%.-Restructured engineering operations while decommissioning legacy product versions to minimize tech debt. Integrated DevOps as part of the core development team and automated one-touch regression tests/QA processes with CI/CD for agility. Raise the bar by consistently meeting the 99.99% availability goal. - Played an instrumental role in building, inspiring, managing and scaling up a global team of highly talented engineers & managers through constant coaching and mentorship- Partner in a leading role with Product Management and Engineering leadership in quarterly and yearly planning.Tech stack: Java, MySql, AWS, Sencha, Angular.js, GO, Prometheus, Grafana, MongoDB, Docker, Kubernets

San Francisco Bay Area

My team was responsible for providing the common service foundation layer for Cisco Smart Analytics Group. We develop the core-platform API infrastructure in which the services solutions are build upon. My job profile includes:• Provide End-to-End Solution & Architecture for Service offering.• Translate requirements and user stories into design specifications and solid code. • Evaluate and integrate with open source technologies. • Implement automated tests, automated deployments, and operational tools. • Work closely and collaboratively with local and distributed teams.• Leading core-service offering framework solution for Cisco Smart Analytics Group. Leading a team of engineers

San Jose, California, United States

Design and development of management software based of Java/J222 (Entrisphere acquired by Ericsson)

• Developed packet sniffing application C++ using libpcap• Developed packet sniffing application java using JPCap library• Responsible for the overall Architecture, Design, Software development, Testing, Integration of Modular Filtering Engine• Leading the team in the design of Modular Filtering Engine management software from scratch

Responsible for the enterprise mediation and OSS product line of Siemens Access portfolio. I was handling the enterprise products that would interact with Network monitoring tools, E-mailing, SMS in northbound and EMS in the southbound.

Lead

Stanford Certified Project Management, Project Management, S

Converting Strategy Into Action Executing Complex Programs Leadership for Strategic Execution Managing Without Authority Leading Change.

Ms, Computer Science

Be, Electronics & Electrical