Pankaj Shroff
CEO, Co-founder - We're Hiring at mcSquared.AI [official]
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPankaj Shroff is a veteran technology entrepreneur and CEO with 13 years of executive experience and a 25+ year engineering background spanning telecom, VoIP, and AI-driven startups. As co-founder and CEO of mcSquared.AI and former founder/CEO of Psychability, he blends product-first leadership with hands-on system design, having held senior engineering and strategy roles at Vonage, Sonus, and Tellabs. He has deep expertise in real-time systems and protocol-driven architectures—evidenced by meaningful open-source contributions to the OpenRTB 2.x reference implementation, including Avro protocol support and a StatefulBidder for RTB workflows. A Harvard GMP alum with an MS in Computer Science, Pankaj pairs strategic investment and M&A experience with practical software craftsmanship, often translating complex telecom standards into production-ready solutions. Based in Greater Boston, he hires and builds cross-disciplinary teams that prioritize customer experience as the core product.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Utah State UniversityBE Computer Engineering, BE Computer Engineering at Pune UniversityGeneral Management Program (GMP) General Management, General Management Program (GMP) General Management at Harvard Business School
Github Skills (8)
javas10
avro10
openrtb10
api10
apidoc10
java10
json8
state-machine8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
openrtb/openrtb2x
Feb 2013 - Jun 2014
Up to date reference impl of the latest spec (2.0) of OpenRTB
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:37 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Pankaj significantly contributed to the OpenRTB 2.x specification implementation by adding Avro protocol descriptions and generating corresponding types, messages, and interfaces. The user refactored the Blocklist API implementation to align with the Avro RPC model, removing unused classes and adding Copyright notices with a BSD license to new files. Furthermore, the user worked on core classes, including the `BidRequest` object and created the initial implementation of a StatefulBidder to support real-time bidding processes.
up-to-dateopenrtbspecimpl
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