Summary
Madhav Shanbhag is a hands-on systems engineer and co-founder with 9 years in leadership roles and over two decades of embedded and multimedia systems experience, now serving as VP Systems & Deployment at Apra Labs. He combines deep low-level expertise in C/C++, DSP/ARM architectures (Blackfin, DaVinci, OMAP, i.MX) and board bring-up with modern cloud and web stacks including Node.js, AWS Lambda/EC2, and WebSockets to deliver end-to-end video production and biometric systems. His career spans shipping real-time video transcode, 4K field recorders, live-streaming appliances and hyper-optimized biometric matchers that scaled to 10k entries in under a second. Comfortable bridging hardware, firmware and cloud workflows, he’s repeatedly turned prototype devices into production products that integrate embedded constraints with scalable serverless pipelines. Based in Bengaluru, he brings a pragmatic founder’s mindset—equally fluent in soldering boards and architecting distributed media workflows.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.E. Electronics and Communication, B.E. Electronics and Communication at Karnatak University
Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan