# Sumanth Srinivasan

> Software Engineer

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sumanth

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ JWX
Jan 2023 – Present | New York, United States
- Built a player-agnostic dynamic ad scheduler plugin to maximize midroll ad fills
- Built native support for Google Publisher Provided Services

### Senior Software Engineer @ Runway
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | New York, United States
- Led full-stack development and redesign of the assets workflow in support of Runway’s new enterprise-focused features
- Built an asynchronous video and sprite image prefetcher for Runway’s NeRF editor
- Developed a custom HLS video player to support the real-time inference
capabilities of Runway’s 20+ multimodal AI magic tools (Gen-1, Frame Interpolation, etc)
- Built the frontend interface and state machine for Video Depth Extraction and Image
Upscaling tools
- Setup up adaptive bitrate (ABR) video streaming and built an image compression service to improve video editor load times

### Senior Software Engineer - Video Playback @ Vimeo
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | New York, United States
- Setup integration between Vimeo Player and Wirewax SDK in order to enable in-video interactivity (add to cart, timeline branching and custom overlays) on all embed players
- Configured a module to pass Common Media Client Data (CMCD) to be passed with media requests for VODs

### Engineer - Video Playback @ Vimeo
Jan 2017 – Jan 2022 | Greater New York City Area
- Worked with Security and Trust & Safety teams to restructure internal architecture for video embed privacy and moderation tools
- R&D with the Applied Machine Learning team to test a novel reinforcement learning based adaptive bitrate algorithm to improve video quality of experience
- Led development for Email Capture and Chapters in videos; setup data storage, ORM, made updates to Player microservice and Creator Settings UI
- Built support for AVOD and extended DRM playback and Chromecast capabilities in the player, rewrote internal APIs in the HTML5 player and expanded a homegrown JS-based playback metrics logger
- Contributed to improvements in the adaptive streaming engine driving Live and VOD playback, and developed internal tools for development and QA
- Built Vimeo-Max/MSPAPI, and contributed to WebGL integration for 360º videos

### Creative Coder in Residence @ NYU Music Experience Design Lab
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area
Development interactive web applications and portable servers for music education, including Variation Playground for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.

### Graduate Research Assistant (Video Lab) @ New York University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Brooklyn
Developed web-based 360º video player as part of test setup for experiments on user behavior in 360deg video environments via web and VR Headsets, and setup metrics logging to gather time-series data on viewing behavior.

### Studio Technician @ NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
Re-configuration of signal flow and patch bay in the Modular Synthesis studio, technical assistance, Mixer calibration, A/V support and maintenance at studios in the department of Music and Performing Arts Professions.

### Associate Systems Engineer - Data Specialist @ IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Gurgaon, India
Development and maintenance of ETL/DataStage jobs and Unix Shell scripts for automated querying Revenue Assurance and Business Intelligence (Customer Lifecycle Management) KPIs for Bharti Airtel account

### Summer Intern @ Sterlite  Technologies Ltd.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Magarpatta City, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Developed a mathematical model to determine the most lucrative choice of power conductor for re-conductoring operations
Concept research on advanced methods in Live Line Working and proprietary products/services available

### In-Plant Trainee @ Brakes India Limited
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Chennai, India
Brief training program on understanding of working of electrical machines, their applications and the control systems required.


## Education
### Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering
New York University - Polytechnic School of Engineering
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017

### Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
SASTRA University
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sumanthsrinivasan
- GitHub: https://github.com/reckoner165
- Website: https://acrosspolyethylene.wordpress.com/

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Source: https://flows.cv/sumanth
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/sumanth/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22