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Vivek Kumar

Vivek Kumar

General Manager / Senior Staff / Engineering Manager
Noida

Summary

Engineering Manager with 14 years of work experience in Software development.

Leading Multimedia team of 25 members (Video, DRM, Voice engine).

Responsible for innovation in Multimedia Group of 100 members. Total of 6 patents in mobile domain.


Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Technical General Manager

Samsung Research Institute Noida
Noida
03.2022 - Current
  • Leading multimedia framework group which include development & debugging of A/V Codec, Voice Engine, Player and Digital Rights Management.
  • Global Owner of Digital rights management for all Samsung devices.
  • Work on Codec, Voice Engine & Player porting and debugging for Innovative & derived mobile phones.
  • Responsible for innovation & driving patents for complete Multimedia Group in Samsung Noida.
  • Mentor and onboard new members of Media Service team in Codec, Player, DRM & Voice Engine.

Senior Chief Engineer

Samsung Research Institute Noida
Noida
03.2020 - 02.2022
  • Technical lead & decision making of Digital Rights Management.
  • Leading a team of 12 members for development and debugging.
  • Look for continuous improvements in Digital Rights Management related to decryption performance and current consumptions.
  • Handling of security vulnerabilities in Digital Rights Management and fixing them.
  • In continuous discussion with SoCs vendor Qualcomm, Exynos, Mediatek & Content providers like Netlfix, Prime video etc.
  • Keep technically updated for new upcoming changes in Android and preparing team members.
  • Lead a team to handle new changes in Digital Rights Management.

Chief Engineer

Samsung Research Institute Noida
Noida
03.2017 - 03.2020
  • Established DRM team in Samsung Research Institute and expanded DRM module in Samsung Research Institute Noida.
  • Managed DRM on 100 percent of Samsung of phones.
  • Work on Secure OS (Mobicore Exynos & QSEE Qualcomm) for widevine DRM solutions.
  • Development of Samsung inhouse solution to write widevine keys in factory during manufacturing of mobile phone.
  • Development of TA in Exynos Mobicore Secure OS for recovering widevine keys.
  • Code modifications require due to new security policies and new requirements in new launching Android OS.
  • Trouble-shooting with JDM models for critical wideivne issues.
  • Handling of DRM VOCs and responsible for HD content playback from OTT apps.

Lead Engineer

Samsung Research Institute Noida
Noida
03.2013 - 03.2017
  • Integration of Widevine DRM, OMA DRM & Playready in OS upgrade models and derived models.
  • Co work with broadcomm devices to implement Playready in SWd.
  • Work on debugging of Playready, OMA DRM and Widevine DRM issues and handling of all GTS & CTS DRM issues in all SRI-N assigned models.
  • Travelling to HQ Suwon South Korea multiple times to work with HQ DRM team.
  • Learning of Trustzone and TA development with Exynos secure OS.
  • Work on mobile and Android setup box devices.

Senior Software Engineer

Samsung Research Institute Noida
Noida
01.2011 - 03.2013
  • Joined multimedia group in Samsung and Started work on Android development.
  • Work in Media transfer protocol to transfer media files from personal laptop to Android phone.
  • Handled problems related to device connection, Content transfer & UI.
  • Assigned additional responsibility to port & debug Playready and OMA DRM on Samsung Noida assigned models.
  • Traveled to HQ Gumi South Korea for porting Playready in Galaxy S3 derived model.
  • Started to learn about classic Widevine in Android.

Software Engineer

IPDialog India Private Limited
Chandigarh
08.2008 - 01.2011

Started Carrier with IPDialog India Private Limited.

  • Learnt about VOIP and SIP protocol.
  • Work on fixing issues related to call Like Holding/Retrieving, Conference calls & Normal VOIP calls & fixing UI issues.
  • Developed Key Expansion module on Avaya 12xx VOIP Phone.
  • Development of Android application to make SIP calls. Used Sockets & JNI, Android application guide for development.

Education

Master of Technology - Software Technology

Delhi Technological University
New Delhi
08.2016 - 07.2019

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science

YMCA Institute of Engineering
Faridabad
06.2004 - 07.2008

Skills

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Patents

I always look for improvements and thinking of solutions that can benefit everyone.

Using this thought process, I have total of 6 patents.

2 Patents are A Grade (1 Filed and 1 Ongoing)

4 Patents are filed in India Office.

Paper Publish

I have one paper published in IEEE

MTP : A methodology to protect users data during MTP Communication.

One paper is on going and it is related to widevine keybox 2.0

Timeline

Technical General Manager

Samsung Research Institute Noida
03.2022 - Current

Senior Chief Engineer

Samsung Research Institute Noida
03.2020 - 02.2022

Chief Engineer

Samsung Research Institute Noida
03.2017 - 03.2020

Master of Technology - Software Technology

Delhi Technological University
08.2016 - 07.2019

Lead Engineer

Samsung Research Institute Noida
03.2013 - 03.2017

Senior Software Engineer

Samsung Research Institute Noida
01.2011 - 03.2013

Software Engineer

IPDialog India Private Limited
08.2008 - 01.2011

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science

YMCA Institute of Engineering
06.2004 - 07.2008
Vivek KumarGeneral Manager / Senior Staff / Engineering Manager