Bhaskar Upadhyay

About Bhaskar Upadhyay

Engineering Leader and Software ArchitectIn the past 9 years: CDN + Video technology, HTTP Streaming Services (HLS/DASH)Before that: Backend RESTful Services & gamingFavorite languages: Python (Expert level), C/C++(Intermediate)Have touched: Go, Java.Contributed to the following products: Call of Duty: Black OPs II(video game), Call of Duty: Ghosts(video game).Specialties: Build teams that create maintainable software.

Experience

1. Sr Software Engineering Manager

   Edgio

   Jun 2022 — Present · Raleigh, NC, US

   Architected the system design and led engineers to build a 7 day cloud DVR feature for live TV programming in HLS/MPEG-Dash streaming using Python, C, Redis and Ceph Storage for a high visibility LATAM video streaming customer. Estimated OTT revenue of $6MM per year. Lead Edgio CDN Video watermarking feature in collaboration with third party vendors - Irdeto/Nagra and DASH-IF open-source community for a globally leading video streaming customer to develop support for CBOR Web Token. Estimated revenue of $20MM per year. Worked with the platform product team to develop a new usage-based billing model, generating revenue of over $5MM per year on what was previously a free legacy edge compute platform. Architected and established support models for FOX SuperBowl 2023 live video workflows on Edgio CDN. Lead a cross-functional, multi-company team of engineering managers and software engineers from Verizon FIOS/Edgecast/Qwilt and Uplynk for the Opencaching initiative to accelerate the last mile traffic (CDN+Video) delivery from within the customer\'s ISP. This functionality enables the Verizon 5G/FIOS networks for POC customers: Discovery and Disney. Estimated revenue of $5MM per year. Conduct periodic management reviews for high visibility customer accounts with leadership and technical staff to plan and deliver features and products that increase customer retention and drive revenue growth. This helped identify a need for developing a SOC monitoring system for retaining a high visibility Canadian Bank customer (~$1MM per year).

Education

• Pune University

  Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering

• University of Southern California

  Master of Science, Computer Science

Skills

• Software Development
• Python
• Scrum
• Unix
• Django
• Software Design
• Web Services
• Node.js
• Mysql
• Distributed Systems
• Coldfusion
• C
• Eclipse
• Core Java
• Json
• Apache
• C++
• Php
• Design Patterns
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Linq
• Go
• Gdb
• Sql
• Linux
• Jquery
• Web Applications
• Javascript
• Ajax
• Objective-C
• C#
• Oop
• Xml
• Rest
• Multithreading
• Object Oriented Design
• Operating Systems
• Git
• Agile Methodologies
• Jira