Kuldeep Rishi
Senior Director at JioHotstar
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKuldeep Rishi is a senior engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling high-performance, low-latency video streaming and distributed systems. He progressed from hands-on systems engineering at Delhivery to leading playback architecture and Playback Engineering teams at Hotstar/JioHotstar, driving core OTT services used by millions across India. Known for assembling and mentoring large cross-functional teams, he has a track record of reducing buffering/latency and re-architecting monoliths into resilient microservices at scale. He pairs deep technical ownership—security hardening, performance tuning, gRPC/kubernetes-based platforms and real-time event services—with product-focused delivery that cuts costs and boosts engagement. Based in Old Toronto, Kuldeep blends pragmatic engineering with a taste for operational excellence and is as comfortable sketching architecture diagrams as he is debugging production incidents. Outside work he’s a self-described foodie, hinting at a practical, people-oriented leadership style that values culture and collaboration.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MCA, Web Application Engineering, MCA, Web Application Engineering at Maharshi Dayanand UniversityBIM, Bachelor of Information Management, BIM, Bachelor of Information Management at Kurukshetra UniversityScience, Science, Science, Science at S.D. Public School
English, Hindi, Punjabi
Stackoverflow
488reputation
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14answers
8questions
Github Skills (102)
python-requests10
python9
http9
javascript8
http-client8
aws-lambda8
azure-functions7
elasticsearch7
serverless7
visualizations7
serverless-framework7
aws7
flask6
eve6
lambda6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kuldeeprishi/dotfiles
Feb 2015 - Jan 2023
Contributions:22 pushes in 7 years 11 months
kuldeeprishi/blog_project
Dec 2019 - Jun 2021
Contributions:7 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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