Anoop Menon
Staff Software Engineer, YouTube Music
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAnoop Menon is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at YouTube Music with 19 years of experience building media-rich, user-facing products and leading engineering teams to deliver polished playback experiences. He has deep iOS and multimedia expertise from over a decade at YouTube and Google, and earlier work in medical imaging and open-source media (notably contributions to XBMC/ Kodi video and audio subsystems). Known for combining hands-on engineering with product-focused leadership, he advances both performance-sensitive client playback and broader platform reliability. Based in San Francisco, he brings a systems-oriented background—spanning Perl, C/C++, OpenGL/GLSL, and modern mobile stacks—from an MS in Computer Science. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex audio/video challenges into pragmatic, production-ready solutions. Outside work his GitHub persona hints at playful curiosity and a love of games and music.
18 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Electronics and Communication, BE, Electronics and Communication at University of MadrasMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at The University of New Mexico
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (52)
ios10
python10
windows-desktop10
windows10
linux10
kodi10
windows-uwp10
skinning10
intellij-idea10
media-center10
media-player10
tvos10
android-plugin10
android10
xbmc10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tokyovigilante/xbmc-sources-fork
Aug 2007 - Apr 2008
Contributions:5 commits in 8 months
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