Prasad Pol

• Manage and execute Live stream workflow encoding and transcoding, delivery and content protection for Hotstar OTT platform.
• Work on Media Live, Media Package, Media Connect & CDN.
• Knowledge of Widevine , Fairplay and Play-ready various DRM technique.
• Troubleshooting any issue in live streaming.
• Anti-Piracy stream creation for Youtube & Facebook.
• Onboarding e-sports & Red Carpet events on Hotstar using various streaming protocols.
• Familiar with FFMPEG and Linux Installation commands.
• Knowledge of SSAI & CSAI ad swapping technique.

• Manage and execute Live stream workflow encoding and transcoding, storage, delivery and content protection for SonyLIV OTT platform.
• Communicating with the different vendors to streamline the workflow for special events which have features like SSAI, DRM.
• Investigate and implement new techniques and equipment - especially encoding/transcoding, VOD,OTT delivery for platform enhancing.
• Create Akamai configuration for Live as well as linear channels.
• Configured HLS, DASH profiles on Media Live and Media Packaging services on amazon.

• Operate Video/Audio encoding hardware.
• Experience working with Elemental Live, Elemental Conductor and Elemental Cloud encoders.
• Experience working with HLS, RTMP and DASH video streaming protocols with DRM and Non-DRM.
• Experience working with Cinegy Air pro, Cinegy playout, Cinegy Delay server and Cinegy capture.

Tools Used: Cinergy Air pro, Cinergy capture, Elemental Live encoder, Dectek TS analyzer etc.

• Handling all OTT & IPTV setup.
• Configuration of IRDs for converting the received analog signals to digital multicast streams.
• Configuration of Transcoders for adaptive bitrates streaming of the live and recorded content.
• Pushing the live and recorded content on CDN using Wowza streaming engine.
• Monitoring and working on servers like Appear TV, Thomson, Elemental and Wowza.