MANAS MALLIK

• Built a team of 35+ engineers from scratch.
• Responsible for Architecture, design, development and setting up the Infrastructure on AWS, CI-CD pipeline for both the Income Verification and Batik Market place.
• Managed the product team, setup the complete development cycle, from PRDs, to managing the sprint to delivery of the product.
• Responsible for setting up of security and compliance for the org, and received ISO 27001 & ISO27701.
• Developed a culture of trust and ownership within the team
• Laid out complete business continuity plan to maintain data protection in event of natural disaster or long-term outage.
• Managed company-level architecture, platform and data configuration processes and implementation protocols.

• Developed the proximity communication protocol, using audio, bluetooth, and wifi to figure out users in proximity to a location, to power a reward engine based on location.
• Setup the CI-CD pipeline for the mobile app testing.
• Setup of the automated testing framework of the CRED app.
• Setup of emulator farm to reduce the on cloud testing cost.
• Setup of Wiremock to create a mocking backend framework, to simulate all backend scenarios for mobile app testing.

• Sportly (Aug 2018 – Sept 2019): We were providing Sports as an Alternative and Enjoyable option to conventional fitness programs, starting with badminton. People used to subscribe to our packages and came to play regularly we took care of everything else like finding equally skilled players, hassles of booking courts and managing shuttles, training & improvement sessions, organizing tournaments.
  Achieved total 1200 users with 200 daily active users in over 1500 hours of gaming in 5 centers.
• MojoStay (Dec 2017 – Aug 2018): Enhanced guest's stay at hotel by providing with smoother communication and access to hotel services and facilities at the tip his hand, anywhere anytime. Provided proper tracking of their requests, with updates about their requests, swiggy style ordering of food. Deployed our product as PoCs for 4 renowned 5-star hotels.
• Zicly (June 2016 – Nov 2017): We used high frequency audio transmission to power various applications i.e. Second screen engagement and Audience measurement, Authentication, Proximity Marketing, Analytics, Robust communication channel between IoT devices. Worked as a Technical Co-Founder and responsible for creating the core protocol for robust data transfer between devices.

UltraCash is a mobile payment application focused on powering proximity payments without the need for Internet. UltraCash is a one stop solution for merchant payments, Recharge and Utility Bill Payments, Wallet(PPI) Payments & UPI Payments

• Developed a protocol stack for transferring data between two devices over high frequency sound, this can used as Near Field communication without any additional hardware on mobile phones used to power ‘Tap n Pay’ without internet feature for a mobile payment platform
• Lead a team with End-to-end ownership of system architecture and design and application development, production releases, user and merchant engagement for mobile payment app with secure and highly available backend services on the cloud (AWS)
• The system is complex, due to ensuring reliable data transfer using sound waves, proper encryption and decryption and key exchanges between backend server and user’s clients, android application development, and finally, integration between backend servers and APIs of different banks and of NPCI and Payment Gateways Closely working with product team to scope, prioritize and timely release of deliverables.

Ubona Technologies creates purpose built customer experience solutions for enterprises and telecom operators by using it’s array of state of the art technologies and components Some of key solution components provided by Ubona are Customer Care Software, Automated IVRs, Trouble ticket software, Call recording solution and Music platforms

• Developed an Audio Fingerprinting Algorithm for a Song Identification to power a Music Discovery platform as a VAS service for network operators, generated over 100-million-dollar revenue for them in last 10yrs
• Developed a high throughput Song Catcher Server, using GPUs for parallel processing & Indexing solution the song from a database of 10 million songs
• Developed a Vocal Singing Evaluation Algorithm for a providing feedback to singing in a Karaoke. Application to be deployed as a VAS service, by the network/telecom operators
• Built, deployed and maintained a highly scalable and reliable service discovery platform which handles more than 150 millions of calls per month providing search, recommendation, provisioning of various VAS contents across multiple operators like Airtel, Vodafone etc.

Prologix used to build IP-Telephony, VXML, VoIP solutions for its customers Prologix developed first Indian language TTS called “Vaachak” which won several awards and accolades, in 2012 Nuance acquired Vaachak product and its team.

• Researched & Developed a framework to build Text-To-Speech Solution for Indian English & Hindi
• Improvements in quality by speech Data-driven-synthesis techniques, using clustering and greedy algorithms.
• Discovery of various Letter to Sound rules and exceptions of Indian languages
• Improvement in memory footprint using Speech Parametrization and Reconstruction using MFCC & Harmonic & Noise Modelling
• Implemented Prosody Modelling using NLP and Pitch-Synchronous Overlap and addition techniques to modify the pitch of recorded speech.
• Handled full life cycle of products development including planning, scheduling, development Managed and Maintained and Supported TTS products, ie creation, handling and maintenance of sources, binaries and installers and their versioning and support.