# Som Poddar > Staff Software Engineer at Warner Bros. Discovery Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/sompoddar ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Warner Bros. Discovery Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Build & manage cloud-native resilient services to support AVOD and SVOD playback at the global scale for 100+M subscribers. ### Se Software Engineer @ Crunchyroll Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area Building cloud-native, scalable, resilient infrastructure to prepare, package & deliver video content to 25M+ viewers globally. ### Software Engineer @ GoPro Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, CA GoPro, Inc. is transforming the way people capture and share their lives. Cloud Platform within GoPro builds tools/infrastructure across different platform/devices that allow users to easily upload, manage, view & edit their content, watch what others have created and told their personal stories. Worked on several interdependent, multi-nodal, auto-scaled, distributed & Dockerized API & workers within the media ingestion & playback pipe-line for GoPro CloudPlatform serving cloud-connected cameras and iOS/Desktop/Android clients. Also contributed to several services & workers that maintain paid users' Entitlements portfolio depending on their storage quota, subscription status, payment history and locale. ### Software Engineer @ Gametime United Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area Gametime lets people buy last-minute tickets for sporting events in almost every major city in the US & Canada. The app uses its patented algorithm to determine the ‘best’ seats for the venue and offer personalized options on the phone for users to buy from. Sharing tickets with friends and scanning barcodes at the gate is also painless. The Gametime app has been featured in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store multiple times. Designed & built ingestion platform to automate partner integration. Built API for automating the purchase process with partners. ### Lead Platform Engineer & Director of Technology @ Petstablished Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area Petstablished gets Animal Welfare Organizations noticed by increasing their online exposure and facilitating more donations to their organization. Our mission is to assist Animal Welfare Organizations with adoptions and donations without having to spend more of their own money. We list all of their animals, gather adoption applications, and allow people to donate to the Animal Welfare Organizations via our website. Designed product features, outline product specifications and integrate them into product roadmap. Lead software development process and roll-out features by taking them through all phases of the SDLC. ### Software Developer @ Humana Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 One of the lead software developers for content managed, very large scale secure web application built with MVC framework. Implement SOA by designing & implementing robust, reliable web services serving very high volume traffic. Finetune performances for web applications & web services. Build ETL jobs for B2B transactions. ### Web Application Developer @ Ascendio, LLC Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Irving, TX Develop custom, modular, lightweight e-commerce solution to non-profit organizations to accommodate various payment processing needs. Extend & customize e-commerce solutions, integrate multiple payment gateways such as Authorize.net, PayPal & Google checkput. Develop ‘Donor Connect’, a proprietary SaaS product for Ascendio offering electronic payment integration service. ### Business Application Analyst @ Verizon Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | Irving, TX Analyze development impact for applications based on Business Requirements. Collaborate with application architects, subject matter experts and stakeholders. Transform the analysis to pseudo code for developers. ### Web Application Developer @ US Computing Inc. Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 Develop data driven web applications to implement process automation with access right management, personalization & business rule validation for Public Schools Districts. ### Teaching Assistant @ University of South Carolina Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 | Columbia, SC Teach Computer Science 101 & 102 to undergraduate students ### Information Technology Intern @ EWIE Co, Inc Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 | Pittsburgh, PA Enhanced an in-house Inventory Management application for the company. Extended Performance Analysis Dashboard with data dump flatfile. ### Application Developer @ Earth Sciences & Resources Institute Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 Developed a n-tier web application for USDA of Maryland. Documented legacy code and migrate them into a new module ## Education ### Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science & Engineering University of South Carolina ### Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science & Engineering Heritage Institue of Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sompoddar - Portfolio: http://www.sombit.com/som --- Source: https://flows.cv/sompoddar JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/sompoddar/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12