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Sumit Agarwal

Faridabad,India

Summary

Expert software engineering professional with over 17 years of progressively responsible experience. Analytical Technical Manager adept at recruiting, leading and developing highly effective technical teams. Meticulous and driven with a passion for innovation and process improvement demonstrated over the years in technical roles. Expert in building and delivering OTT/OTA solutions for Smart TVs, Xbox, STBs. AWS certified solutions architect. Accomplished in all aspects of software development including project administration, coordinating teams and resources, design, product specifications, and technology recommendations. Manages projects and designs effectively according to established roadmaps and adapting to dynamic challenges and roadblocks. Scrum/Agile enthusiast, certified scrum master passionate about implementing agile best practices. Quick learner and confident problem solver. Excellent human relations, leadership and communication skills. Work well with a wide variety of employees across the organization.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
1
1
Language

Work History

Principal Engineering Manager

Disney+ Hotstar
01.2024 - Current
  • Worked towards streamlining the live operations for better resource utilization.
  • Risk assessment for entire live operations, failure point identification and mitigation plan.
  • Improved engineering processes by streamlining workflows and implementing agile project management methodologies.
  • Live operations and pre-production cost assessment. Identified ways to reduce the test stream cost


Senior Technical Manager

Dish Networks (SlingTv)
06.2022 - 01.2024
  • Delivering large scale OTT solutions on web based clients
  • Leading and managing teams across different geographical locations working on next generation video player for SlingTv on Smart Tvs (LG, Samsung, Vizio), Xbox, Chrome, Safari, Edge
  • Led the effort to address technical issues across Sling App to reduce churn
  • Improved streaming performance index by 10% with server side ad implementation
  • Leading the effort to improve VST and rebuffering on Smart TV devices
  • Extensive hands on expertise on TypeScript, JavaScript, Node JS and advanced video Technologies like H.264, HEVC, CMAF, DASH, HLS, Smooth Streaming, Widevine, PlayReady, Fairplay, Securemedia, EAC3, 4K, MSE, EME & etc.
  • Experience on building CI/CD pipelines, TDD, DevOps best practices
  • Monitor full software lifecycles to meet project specifications and deadlines.
  • Analyze and interpreted complex technical documents and data models.
  • Coordinated with external channel partners to on-board new channel offerings to Sling

Senior Manager

Hughes Systique/ SlingTv
01.2021 - 06.2022
  • Directed team of around 40 engineering staff managing development of next gen video player on STBs (Roku, amazon fire), iOS
  • Led effort to deploy new player architecture across all of Sling platforms.
  • Implemented and deployed client side ad insertion
  • Adobe, Nielsen, Comscore, Conviva analytics integration for compliance
  • Oversaw initiatives devoted to improving customer experience, overall video quality and reducing churn.
  • Increased revenue with ad insertion opportunities enhancement
  • Assessed task completion to meet tight project deadlines.
  • Managed communications with internal and external stakeholders.

Software Engineering Manager

SlingTv/Hughes Systique
01.2016 - 01.2021
  • Led and mentored software engineers developing video playback modules for Roku, Android, Mac, iOS, and AppleTV.
  • Recruited engineering personnel, technical staffing and decided on project team formation.
  • Recommended new technology and ideas to improve sprints and efficiency.

Principal Engineer

Hughes Systique Corporation
11.2012 - 01.2016
  • Led development team of 8 engineers working on next generation Adaptive Player for SlingTv on Roku, Android, Mac, iOS, and AppleTV.
  • Performed continuous reviews of projects and team work in order to enact proactive changes that maintained efficiency.
  • Completed code debugging, software troubleshooting, root cause analysis and program reviews.
  • Estimated project requirements and planned milestones.
  • Designed and implemented features like Uplynk DRM, HLS implementation, third part analytics integration etc.
  • Designed and wrote crucial video streaming features: Client-side Dynamic Ad Insertion (DAI), Analytics Notifications, HLS/DASH player implementation
  • Principal designer for various client side drm like Widevine, Uplynk
  • Functional knowledge of video streaming technologies: HLS, DASH, MPEG TS formats, CEA-607/708 Closed Caption formats, Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) algorithms, Widevine DRM, Fragmented Mp4, CENC

Team Leader

Aricent LLC
06.2006 - 11.2012
  • Worked on various projects involving Intelligent Networks service implementations for European telecom operators.


Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical, Electronics Engineering Technologies

Delhi College of Engineering
Delhi, India
06.2002 - 05.2006

Skills

SAFe, Agile Methodologies

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Certification

SAFe Certified ScrumMaster

Timeline

Principal Engineering Manager

Disney+ Hotstar
01.2024 - Current

Senior Technical Manager

Dish Networks (SlingTv)
06.2022 - 01.2024

Senior Manager

Hughes Systique/ SlingTv
01.2021 - 06.2022

Software Engineering Manager

SlingTv/Hughes Systique
01.2016 - 01.2021

Principal Engineer

Hughes Systique Corporation
11.2012 - 01.2016

Team Leader

Aricent LLC
06.2006 - 11.2012

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical, Electronics Engineering Technologies

Delhi College of Engineering
06.2002 - 05.2006

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