# Sunil Jayaprakash > Staff Software Engineer Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/suniljayaprakash My friends and colleagues recognize me as a trustworthy effective leader, mostly, attributed to my ability to take people along the path of realizing a common vision. Having worked at large publicly traded companies, startups and my own attempt to be an entrepreneur, I earned trust, technical competence and gained confidence. My mentors see me as a someone who gets things done while being a Change Agent in influencing, shaping up a good culture, and work ethics. With over two decades of experience, I also have an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas, where I practiced negotiation and conflict resolution, microeconomics, strategy, leadership among others. Most recently, I have been a Senior Engineering Manager at Avail Medsystems, a company that is transforming healthcare by enabling remote collaboration and consultation during live surgeries. My core competencies include full-stack development, agile project management, cross team collaboration, and technology leadership. I have built and managed multiple products and platforms including most recent video platform for surgical telepresence, using technologies such as ReactJS, Redux, Electron, Twilio, PubNub, Swift, Node.js, leveraging Unix capabilities. I have also designed and developed a secure connected platform to integrate partner applications and services, and an enterprise-grade administration portal for healthcare experts. When I was a backend engineer, I worked with Java. My mission is to create collaborative solutions that people love and embrace, thereby improving the quality and accessibility. I am passionate about creating a customer-centric and happier team culture by aligning my priorities and sprints with the company's vision and OKRs. I also enjoy staying connected with the community and finding suitable partners for the next phase of my career. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Mendaera, Inc. Jan 2024 – Present | San Mateo, California, United States Joined Mendaera through the technology acquisition of Avail Medsystems, Inc. Mendaera’s vision is to digitize clinical judgment and technical expertise making high-quality care available for every patient at every care facility. Mendaera's platform combines robotics, real-time imaging, artificial intelligence, and connectivity to enable intervention at scale. I am involved in combining telepresene technology to accelerate its vision to utilize robotics and AI to deliver new care models. Tech Stack : Typescript, React, Python, C++ ### Senior Engineering Manager, Full Stack Engineering @ Avail Medsystems Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area At various stages, either built or directly managed a team of 8 and 3 products related to surgical telepresence. WebUI, iPad, Client Platform and Desktop applications enabling Saas based collaboration tools for procedural telemedicine. Tech Stack - ReactJS, Redux, Electron, Twilio, PubNub, Swift, nodejs. Set Priorities and drive Sprints, Retros, and Quarterly OKRs aligned with company's vision. ### Engineering Manager, Full Stack Engineering @ Avail Medsystems Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area Avail Medsystems is building a remote network to change the way healthcare experts connect, consult, and collaborate. One network. Endless possibilities. Completely aligned with executives' vision, my current responsibilities include. 1. Build Video Collaboration Platform for Procedural Telemedicine wherein the Remote users have the ability to collaborate during live surgeries. 2. Build best-in-class enterprise grade administration portal that allows healthcare experts to collaborate for procedural telemedicine. 3. Design and Develop a Secure Connected Platform to integrate partner applications and services. 4. Build a great "Customer-Centric" and "Happier" teams. 5. Positively influence and establish a great Work Culture. 6. Manage "High-Performing" and "Confident" team of individuals. 7. Facilitate Technical discussions and mentor team members to take on higher responsibilities. 8. Manage Sprints for effective delivery of engineering commitments. 9. Develop future Tech leads, senior engineers, and interns. ### Senior Software Engineer @ BlueJeans by Verizon Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Moved to Mountain View to take up higher responsibilities. Been part of BlueJeans desktop application from scratch, aimed at delivering best end to end video communications that people love. ### Consultant @ BlueJeans by Verizon Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 Developed BlueJeans desktop application from scratch using nwjs, aimed at delivering best end to end video communications that people love. Developed BlueJeans Scheduler for Mac using Objective-C from scratch. Developed BlueJeans Safari extension. Developed BlueJeans Chrome extension. Developed a Support portal used to manage Users' and Enterprises' profile. Technologies - OS X, HTML, JS, backbone.js, python, django. ### Managing Director, Founder @ Private Company Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 | Bengaluru Area, India Closed the company operations in Bangalore in (2016). My first startup as an enterpreneur. Developed a SaaS based Ad Inventory Management Portal. Developed an Apparel Designer Cloud. TimeSheet Management portal for Accounting firms. Hired and managed a team of 4 to successfully develop and deploy the projects. ### Technical Lead @ Yahoo! Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 I enjoyed being in Ad Platform Group developing backend analytics apis for report generation. Being a Yahoo! one definitely would experience great exposure to UX design principles. ### Lead. System Software Engineer. @ Akamai Technologies Jan 2006 – Jan 2011 worked in multiple teams and with various people making many friends (and not just colleagues) in the journey. Some of the tasks that I accomplished at Akamai were * a reliable client software to enable large file downloads. * firefox Addon that could understand user's behaviour on a web application and provide metrics to server. * QoS Diagonizer and Analytics Data Collection that included - Development of a Javascript Plugin to HTML5 Video Player to collect Behavioural Data and report to Servers. - Setup a secure backend data collector machine pool to effectively retrieve raw data from huge store for faster Raw Data Analysis. For the contribution to Analytics Team, I was recognized with MVP of a quarter. ### Member Of Technical Staff @ Sun Microsystems Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 I enjoyed being in N1SPS team of Sun. I worked on automation of the application provisioning in a heterogeneous deployment environment. An unattended Multi-Installer allowed Network administrator to automate the process of remote installation, configuration of applications. ### Software Engineer @ Caritor Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 Caritor(Now Keane, an NTT Data company) was my first corporate experience where I was part of ACUS team. I worked on Code Generation Tool that generated Enterprise Deployable code (in Java). This provided a great handson on Internationalization Concepts. ## Education ### Master of Business Administration - MBA University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business ### B.E in Computer Science Visvesvaraya Technological University ### PUC National College, Jayanagar ### Vidyaniketan, Tumkur ### Bangalore education society ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/suniljayaprakash - Website: http://jinnu.wordpress.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/suniljayaprakash JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/suniljayaprakash/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01