Anand Kandasamy
Senior Engineering Manager at Comcast
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnand Kandasamy is a Senior Engineering Manager with over 20 years of experience leading embedded and enterprise software teams, currently overseeing Device API and RDK Services development for Comcast set-top boxes and Smart TVs. He has a strong track record of building middleware platforms and production-ready Device API layers—open sourced and designed with semantic versioning, changelogs, and automated testing—to enable native and web apps via JSON-RPC. Anand combines hands-on C/C++ and Node.js expertise with senior leadership, having driven performance optimizations, secure provisioning, and firmware update reliability across consumer devices. His open-source contributions to the rdkservices platform include HDMI, display, and firmware fixes that improved stability across hardware variants, reflecting a pragmatic focus on cross-platform robustness. Based in the New York City area, he pairs systems-level technical depth from embedded firmware to cloud-backed backup solutions with consistent delivery and stakeholder collaboration.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Coimbatore Institute of Technology
Github Skills (12)
build-system10
c-language10
cmake10
cprogramming-language10
rds10
live-update9
firmware9
json9
updater9
system-design8
embedded8
sys8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rdkcentral/rdkservices
May 2020 - Jan 2023
RDK Services
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2148 reviews, 1816 commits, 2329 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Anand primarily contributed to the RDK services platform by modifying service call signs and updating build scripts to support different platforms. The user refactored and optimized code related to HDMI input, state observers, and display settings, ensuring correct functionality on various devices. They also addressed JSON parsing errors and fixed issues related to system plugin threads, improving the stability and performance of the RDK services. The user also implemented fixes and improvements to firmware updates.
rdkentertainmentvendor
anand-ky/rdkservices
May 2020 - Apr 2024
RDK Services
Contributions:165 pushes, 156 branches in 3 years 11 months
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