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I am an aspiring full-stack engineer experienced in architecture, design and implementation of products and solutions. I work primarily on the back-end components and mostly select Open Source components for my products. I have been a hands-on developer for the last 10+ years (5 years as an architect), a part-time system administrator for the last 12 years and an Open Source supporter and promoter for 14 years.Backend Developer @ From January 2014 to Present (1 year 10 months) San Francisco Bay AreaCommitter @ Committer at Apache Libcloud project From December 2012 to Present (2 years 11 months) Solutions Architect and lead back-end developer @ I was one of the two founder-architects for a video solution (product suite for video-on-demand, time-shift tv and live video) as part of Infosys’ Product Incubation Group. In this role, I was in charge of the solution-design as well as design and development of back-end products required for this solution. The solution comprised of the following products ● Video Catalog Management (on-demand, live, 3rd party repositories and time-shift TV) ● Distributed video transcoding and encryption, video recording for time-shift TV ● Video streaming server (Origin/Edge architecture) ● Entitlement, billing (pre/post paid), invoicing, business rules and content protection ● Device & Subscriber Identity management and service configuration ● Recommendation engine for content discovery ● Video and banner ad management From July 2009 to January 2014 (4 years 7 months) Bengaluru Area, IndiaProduct Architect and lead back-end developer @ I was the lead-developer for a product which provides interactive applications on Digital TV. The solution included back-end products for providing data over DVB-S2 to Set-top boxes (for tv apps) and tv-commerce. On the STBs, we had applications which included overlaid personalized widgets, local city information (including live traffic), a companion app for a business news channel and TV commerce apps We also developed a companion mobile client (J2ME) and associated backend systems for EPG browsing, nVoD content purchase (pay-per-view), scheduling DVR recording on supported STBs and displaying banner ads (served via OpenX) From June 2007 to July 2009 (2 years 2 months) Bengaluru Area, IndiaSoftware Engineer @ I was a systems engineer for a telecom middleware that is being developed within Infosys’ Product Incubation Unit. My work involved selection of the OS (NetBSD-2) and design/implementation of frameworks for process monitoring, IPC (TIPC), CLI, system init, logging, live debugging, pools based memory management, configuration backup, efficient user-space timers etc. Also worked on system-call performance improvement (using kernel shared objects), build system (first cut), porting apps to use kqueue etc. This middleware was used to build a DSLAM (ADSL2+ and vDSL). Was also a code/design reviewer for other modules. From September 2004 to May 2007 (2 years 9 months) Bengaluru Area, IndiaSoftware Engineer @ I worked as a junior engineer for one of Infosys’ telecom customers (Lucent Technologies). My work included memory optimizations, PPPoE/A, SNMP, tech support, bug fixes etc. on the Lucent Stinger DSLAMs and TNT access boxes. From June 2002 to September 2004 (2 years 4 months) Bengaluru Area, India Mahendra M is skilled in: Unix, Database Design, Java, Linux, Web Services, Python, C, Open Source, Tomcat, Django, PHP, RabbitMQ, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, HBase, Hadoop, CouchDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, C++, NetBSD, ZeroMQ, Ffmpeg, X264, Celery, Twisted, Live Video Streaming, VOD, Nginx, Apache, kqueue, Git, XMPP, AMQP, Memcached, System Administration, Network Security, Security, REST, OpenX, Event Driven Programming, Linux Kernel, Cloud Computing, Backend Development, Functional Programming, Scala, Integration, Operating Systems, Amazon Web Services..., Docker