Vikrant Ghai
Technical Specialist
Rohini,India
Summary
A Seasoned Software Engineer, Certified ScrumMaster® and Technology Enthusiast with 12+ years of experience in execution. Confident technical leadership and competent software development expertise with a strong education background. Passionate about Science, Mathematics & Technology
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Associate Technical Specialist
Barco Electronics
DELHI, DELHI
05.2015 - Current
- Leading execution of business commitments, feature ownerships, implementing product vision, architecting software components, stakeholders collaboration , driving SDLC.
- Managed and delivered flawless feature - An interactivity-based product update (Annotation, Blackboarding and touchback) which brings collaboration, co-creation and ideation to meeting rooms having large screen touch panel connected with wireless presentation and conferencing devices
- Managed and delivered successful release which brings recurring revenue model over fixed price product offering in meeting room. Calendar Service is application which brings visualization of meeting schedules, analytics, room usage as well as impromptu room booking directly via in-room connected touch displays.
- Led and delivered features which enhances end-user experience by bringing Dynamic Wallpaper, device identity, connectivity, interactivity, branding, peripherals connectivity and other room customizations into meeting rooms. A front-end application which is written in QT/QML and deeply integrated with device middleware for rendering UX, driving product vision, and still into continuous development for newer business use cases.
- Making sure that development team is continuously aligned with well-versed backlog items and takes responsibility and accountability towards sprint goals. Resolving and narrow-down impediments of development team within reasonable time. Continuous effort to do things rightly and retrospection about things done rightly.
- Contributing as expert in end-to-end product life cycle; Release planning, requirement gathering, designing-architecting software components, implementing features, writing code, UT's, refactoring technical debt, bug fixes, code reviews, mentoring best practices to team and colleagues.
- Collaboration with various stakeholders, squads, UX and automation team. Continuous learning of new technologies, driving innovation and product competitiveness. Rapid prototyping with proof-of-concept and experimentation on new ideas.
Senior Software Engineer - 2
Samsung Electronics
05.2013 - 05.2015
- Developed specialized software for Samsung Electronics within Smart Television business entity, A two-way Screen Mirroring between (Mobile Smart Television)
- Led software development initiative as subject matter expert and primary point-of-contact for project management staff in technologies related Streaming and Multimedia; IPTV, Video-on-demand, RTSP-RTP, IP Camera, WiFi, WiFi-Direct
- Enhanced Intel's Wireless Display (WiDi, used as screen sharing technology in collaboration) in earlier model of Samsung Smart TVs
- Coordinated with other engineers to evaluate and improve software and hardware interfaces in middleware, network and application.
Senior Software Engineer
Aricent Technologies
08.2012 - 05.2013
- Worked closely with other business analysts, development teams and infrastructure specialists to deliver high availability solutions for Implementation of Billing systems, 3GPP specifications, IMS Application nodes (HSS, Gx, Gy, Slg, Slh etc), MIG-Gateway.
- Collaborated with domain experts to understand business requirements and telecom infrastructure, and credit control servers for authentication, authorization and accountability of mobile users
- Delivered and propose software design, implementation during development, writing unit testing, solving defects and identify problematic issues
- Implementation and development of Source Code Analyzer (Developed in-house tool for coding guidelines verification). This tool was developed and designed completely from scratch to verify and validate code written by programmers. This tool was used throughout Organization and it enhanced code quality by following strict Organization specific coding guidelines
Software Engineer
HCL Technologies
12.2009 - 08.2012
- Implementation and designing of PCRF Generator, Completely Configurable IMS emulator to create virtual PCRF nodes for end-to-end testing, validation, and verification of PCRF software and systems
- Implementation and designing of Gx-Server and Gx-Client (IMS-PCRF, Policy Charging and Rules Function) which acts as policy node in ngn/LTE architecture
- Implementation of CDR Manager (Call Data Record Manager), which acts as s major component in billing systems for mobile telephone networks
- Sniffer Player – A network replay tool developed from scratch to replay HTTP and RTSP traffic captured on live Mobile Internet gateways via packet sniffers. The tool was developed to replay complete live network traffic captured in test lab to regenerate load, issues, bugs, and crashes
Education
M. Tech - Computer Science And Engineering
Delhi Technological University
07.2011 - 08.2014
B. Tech - Computer Science And Engineering
Jaypee University of Information & Technology
07.2005 - 07.2009
Skills
Programming: C, C-11/14/17, QT, QML, Python, JS, NodeJs, TCL, Shell Scripting
Framework: GStreamer, FFmpeg, webRTC, Algorithms
Hands-on:OpenCV, OpenGL, TEE's, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Cloud API's(Graph, Azure)
Standards: Miracast 20, Intel's WiDi, Googlecast, MS Connect,Airplay, Mirrorlink, WiFi-AP, WiFi-Direct (WiFi-P2P), SoftAP
Technology: Real-Time Streaming, IPTV, VOD, IP Cameras,H264, MPEG4, AAC, video compression, encoding elements andMiddleware of Smart Television
Protocols: RTSP, RTP, RTCP, TCP/IP, UDP, DHCP, HTTP, WAP,SNMP, RADIUS and Diameter, Socket & Routing protocols,packet analyzers
Platforms: Linux (Native/Embedded), Windows, Android and Tizen
Enthusiast: Research, Prototypes, POC, Design thinking, Analytical and Critical Thinking
Software Engineering: Software Architecture, Analyzing risks, Programming expertise, Code reviews
Leadership: Technical and communication skills, Agile execution, Mentoring and feedback
Summary
- As a Scrum Master , working as a servant leader and enabler for team to deliver commitments towards business.
- As a Technical Specialist , working as a seasoned engineer, collaborating with various stakeholders, contributing expertise, delivering Software developments
- As a Technology Enthusiast , Keen watch on competitors, business, standards, and patent landscapes that could bring product differentiation; learning and participation in hackathon competitions
Accomplishments
- Patent (WO2019115612A1) - Method & system for locating origin of an audio signal within a defined space.
- Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®) from Scrum Alliance Credential ID : 000924935
- Have visited Barco HQ multiple times; in Smart Innovation conferences as a speaker and/or inventor
- Have visited Samsung HQ for Miracast (Screen Mirroring) implementation in Smart television
- Have received the "Productivity Improvement" award in HCL Technologies for consistent design improvisations
Timeline
Associate Technical Specialist
Barco Electronics
05.2015 - Current
Senior Software Engineer - 2
Samsung Electronics
05.2013 - 05.2015
Senior Software Engineer
Aricent Technologies
08.2012 - 05.2013
M. Tech - Computer Science And Engineering
Delhi Technological University
07.2011 - 08.2014
Software Engineer
HCL Technologies
12.2009 - 08.2012
B. Tech - Computer Science And Engineering
Jaypee University of Information & Technology
07.2005 - 07.2009