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Pankaj kumar

@pankajkumar30

I build large-scale mobile and connected TV streaming platforms.

At India Today Group, I lead mobile and Connected TV platform engineering for products serving 10M+ monthly active users. I built a unified streaming architecture across Android TV, Fire TV, Roku, Apple TV, Samsung Tizen, and LG webOS, and implemented SSAI that doubled advertising revenue.

Previously at NDTV, I built live election and cricket experiences for millions of users during peak events, including real-time scorecards and ball-by-ball commentary. I bring 11+ years of Android, OTT streaming, media playback, and platform engineering experience.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Engineering Manager – Mobile & Connected TV

Current

India Today Group

Oct 2019 - Present (6 years 11 months)

Architected and developed large-scale Mobile and Connected TV platforms serving 10M+ monthly active users. Led migration from ExoPlayer to Media3 and implemented Server-Side Ad Insertion, doubling advertising revenue.

Android Android TV Fire TV Roku Apple TV Tizen WebOS ExoPlayer Media3 SSAI SCTE 35 Google IMA SDK Kotlin Java MVVM Jetpack Compose Coroutines Modular Architectures HLS Dash DRM REST GraphQL WebSockets Firebase AWS Git CI CD

Sr Software Developer, Mobile App

NDTV

Sep 2016 - Oct 2019 (3 years 1 month)

Designed and developed live election and cricket experiences supporting millions of users during peak traffic events. Implemented real-time scorecards and ball-by-ball commentary using REST APIs and WebSockets.

Android REST WebSockets Taboola Performance Optimization

Software Developer, Android

AutoPortal

Mar 2016 - Sep 2016 (6 months)

Developed dealer workflow features for real-time used-car inventory management. Implemented Google Analytics to improve customer behaviour insights.

Android Google Analytics

Software Developer, Android

Craterzone / Carwale

Sep 2014 - Feb 2016 (1 year 5 months)

Developed vehicle search and filtering features to improve user discovery. Built used-car marketplace functionality for buying and selling vehicles.

Android

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Indira Gandhi National Open University

Master in Computer Application, Computer Application

Activities and societies: Relevant Coursework: Object Oriented Programming, Databases, Data Structures and Algorithms, Operating Systems, Computer Networks, Advance Data Structures and Algorithms, Information Retrieval, Image Processing

Master in Computer Application from Indira Gandhi National Open University, completed in 2014.