Rakesh Kumar
Principal Engineer at Ittiam Systems Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolRakesh Kumar is a Principal Engineer based in Bengaluru with 8 years of focused experience in video codecs, multimedia systems, and Android media frameworks. He has deep hands-on expertise designing and implementing HEVC and MPEG-4 decoder modules, codec algorithms in C and assembly, and developing plugins and CTS tests for Android extractors, muxers, and codecs. At Ittiam Systems he progressed through engineering ranks to lead and now principal roles, delivering production-grade decoder implementations and performance-optimized embedded media solutions. Comfortable across low-level algorithm design and system integration, he brings a pragmatic blend of optimization skills and platform-level testing discipline. An NIT-educated engineer, he pairs strong academic foundations with a decade-plus of practical experience shipping codec IP for constrained devices.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and engineering at Maulana Azad National Institute of TechnologyAISSE, AISSE at D a v public school
Github Skills (10)
kotlin10
extensible10
exoplayer10
jetpack-compose10
media-player10
jetpack10
android10
java10
player10
android-application9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ittiam-systems/media
Jan 2022 - Aug 2024
The androidx.media3 support libraries for media use cases, including ExoPlayer, an extensible media player for Android
Contributions:26 pushes, 17 branches, 2 comments in 2 years 7 months
casesexoplayeruse-casesandroidkotlin
androidx/media
Feb 2022 - Aug 2024
Jetpack Media3 support libraries for media use cases, including ExoPlayer, an extensible media player for Android
Contributions:23 reviews, 12 PRs, 25 comments in 2 years 7 months
jetpack-media3casesplayerexoplayeruse-cases
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