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Vikram Bhaskaran

@vikrambhaskaran

I lead engineering teams building reliable media, digital, and agent-first platforms.

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What I'm looking for

I’m open to Engineering Manager, Solutions Architect, and platform leadership roles where I can lead teams and build reliable, scalable digital and media platforms.

I lead engineering and architecture for media and digital platforms, most recently at the National Rugby League, where I supported products used by 18 clubs. I measure delivery through availability, latency, throughput, and match-day reliability.

I build event-driven platforms across AWS and Azure, spanning live ingest, encoding, VOD, identity, and multi-tenant operations. Through Aeris, I’m building an agent-first media platform with ReAct, MCP, tool calling, guardrails, and a pure-Rust media toolchain.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Aeris logoAE
Current

Founder

Sep 2026 - Present (0 months)

Aeris is a media platform with a real agent runtime — The agent is the interface; workflows and tools execute. Not a chatbot on a MAM.

Platform Ingest from upload, watch folders, and cloud events (Azure, AWS, on-prem). Event-driven workflows: durable, retryable, nothing processed twice. Library, collections, moments, sequences. One adaptive master, packaged on the fly — less storage, any cloud. M

National Rugby League (NRL) logoNN

Engineering Manager

Mar 2021 - Aug 2026 (5 years 5 months)

Managed a team of developers and their delivery — what shipped, quality, and match-day reliability — not only headcount. Ran 1:1s with engineers and leads: delivery, growth, and blockers. Mentored; skill uplift and knowledge-sharing; architecture whiteboarding. Design-review owner on complex change.

Led engineering and architecture for NRL media and digital platforms used by 18 clubs. Reliability

National Rugby League (NRL) logoNN

Lead Engineer - Media

Jun 2023 - Sep 2023 (3 months)

Stepped up from hands-on media tech to leading developers on live/VOD, Dalet Flex MAM, CDN (Akamai / Fastly), and Bitmovin encode + player, Azure Function Service Automation and Lifecycle management of assets and Azure infrastructure around media.

Accountable for their delivery output and entire lifecycle. Ran 1:1s with engineers; mentoring, knowledge-sharing, and architecture whiteboarding whil

National Rugby League (NRL) logoNN

Senior Engineer - Media Tech

Mar 2021 - Jul 2023 (2 years 4 months)

Owned live video pipeline orchestration on AWS Elemental: streaming profiles, encoding parameters for QoE, and contribution protocols (Zixi, SRT) for resilient ingest and better throughput.

Configured Bitmovin encodes and the Bitmovin player — ladders, player config, and ABR heuristics. Fed player performance metrics and platform-compatibility data back into those settings so QoE improved on real

Kintell.com logoKI

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2020 - Mar 2021 (6 months)

Worked on adding video recording and group video conferencing capability using Laravel and VueJS. Built the backend service for video composition talking to Twilio Video API's for recording and the foundations of multi person conference using Twilio API's on PHP (Laravel). Added Algolia geo filtering search capabilities to find Kintellers for expert advice suggestions

Stan. logoST

Platform Specialist

Jan 2020 - Jul 2020 (6 months)

Led the connected TV engineering team delivering VOD applications across Smart TVs (LG, Samsung, Hisense, Panasonic) and PlayStation — technical ownership, prioritisation, and cross-team QA partnership.

Stan. logoST

TV Platform Lead

Jan 2020 - Jul 2020 (6 months)

Worked on Stan TV app for Samsung and LG and Playstation building capabilities to the native Stan TV App using Preact a ReactJS micro framework to extend the video capabilities on TV platform for DASH streaming. Also helped the team identify better ways to automated testing using SuiTest TV automation setting up the test suite

Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) Australia logoSA

Senior Engineer

Dec 2018 - Jan 2020 (1 year 1 month)

Built an OTT streaming application from the ground up on Telstra TV (Roku) using Brightscript for SBS OnDemand and submitted to Telstra for certification. Integrated third party analytics solutions like Oztam for Video Player Metrics and Abobe Experience Manager for data insights on the application. Built CI/CD pipeline bundling the app using Gulp and deployed to Bamboo.

Introduced several firsts

Switch Media logoSM

Application Architect

Apr 2017 - Nov 2018 (1 year 7 months)

Lead a highly skilled front-end development team for Foxtel , building media applications on the web, chromecast and ps4. We build end to end media capabilities which includes services, infrastructure and application development, offering media player, ingest and video encoding, analytics, video workflow management, live and vod playback capabilities. We focus on building modular media framework t

Optus logoOP

Senior Web Application Developer

Oct 2016 - Apr 2017 (6 months)

Lead design centric front end development team, for the re-design of optus.com.au responsive website. Stake holder engagement on wireframe prototyping, design and development life cycles. Managed a team adopting Kanban business process, built re-usable components, widgets using RactiveJs on top of NodeJs framework called LUX.

Optus logoOP

Senior Frontend Developer

Oct 2016 - Mar 2017 (5 months)

Led design-centric front-end team redesigning optus.com.au; stakeholder engagement across wireframes, design, and delivery; ran Kanban process and reusable component architecture (RactiveJS/Node LUX).

Alive Works logoAW

Senior Full Stack Developer / Lead

Oct 2015 - Oct 2016 (1 year)

Lead design & development of mobile apps from ground up right from customer engagement, wireframe mockup, UX led app development, cross platform deployment of iOS and Android apps across multiple frameworks from Ionic, React Native and Server Side development.

Projects

- Peter's of Kensington
Retail shopping app on both iOS and Android built ground up on React Native closely interacting with th

Target logoTA

Associate Technical Architect ( Mobile Application Frameworks )

Sep 2013 - Sep 2015 (2 years)

Full stack design, develop and solution of enterprise mobile website for Target m.target.com built on BackboneJs with best in class design paradigms, along with HTML5,CSS3 built on SASS on front end and Spring MVC interacting with WCS services on the back end.

Built a comprehensive framework adaptive on both phone and tablet from scratch for highly scalable, modularised usability for retail doma

Prowareness logoPR

Mobile Application/Framework Specialist

May 2012 - Sep 2013 (1 year 4 months)

Job role demands Mockup Design & Simulation, Solution Architecture, Development, Testing, Performance Monitoring, Error Reporting of mobile apps built on cross platform frameworks such as Sencha Touch/Phonegap for iOS and Android devices(Phones+Tablets).

Proficiency in being able to take technology/business decisions to tailor a framework to suit business needs to customers.

Hewlett-Packard logoHE

Sr.Systems/Software Engineer

Nov 2010 - May 2012 (1 year 6 months)

Involved in WebOS support forums managing technical queries on the operating system platform to assess and address solutions.

In-charge of developing highly demanding time boxed multi-vendor drivers using server side Javascript for HP Network Automation(Configuration Management) with careful analysis of network topology,device configuration and classification from a wide range of devices such as

Cisco Systems logoCS

IT Engineer

Jun 2007 - Oct 2010 (3 years 4 months)

Building on the foundations of my expertise on the Java/J2EE platform I had plenty of opportunities to explore and knowledge to amass working with people on projects with diverse expertise. Worked on several high profile projects and also budding ideas into Proof of Concepts on both the web and mobile platforms.

Dived and dwelled daringly and excelled into relatively challenging technologies such

Dell logoDE

Software Engineer

May 2006 - Apr 2007 (11 months)

Joined as a fresher, after having completed my SCJP certification and worked as a Java/J2EE employee for a client, UBS

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

VU

Visvesvaraya Technological University

Bachelor of Engineering, Computational Science

VU

Visvesvaraya Technological University

B.E, Computer Science

2002 - 2006

CB

Christ University, Bangalore

Undergraduate, College/University Preparatory and Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program

2000 - 2002

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