Rama Palaniappan
Staff Software Engineer at Twilio
Milpitas, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRama Palaniappan is a Staff Software Engineer at Twilio with over a decade of experience architecting real-time video systems, specializing in WebRTC, SIP signaling, and STUN/TURN network traversal. He has end-to-end expertise across video encoding, transcoding, transport, conferencing, quality enhancement, and engagement analytics, having shipped mobile and desktop multi-party solutions and platform APIs in C/C++ and Objective-C. His PhD work at Georgia Tech on SVC bitstream extraction directly informs practical gains in streaming and telepresence quality, and he has a strong track record of turning research into production features from his time at Cisco, Spreecast, and research labs. Comfortable across low-level codec work (H.264/SVC, VP8/9, MPEG) and higher-level streaming protocols (RTP/RTCP, HLS), he also builds analytics and REST services to measure user-to-video engagement. Known for solving hard video-quality problems under real-world constraints, he blends rigorous academic training with hands-on product engineering in high-performance Agile teams.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
P S Senior Secondary SchoolMaster of Science (MS), Electrical and Computer Engineering, GPA: 4.0, Master of Science (MS), Electrical and Computer Engineering, GPA: 4.0 at Georgia Institute of TechnologyAnna University, Chennai
English, Tamil, Hindi
Github Skills (34)
kotlin10
android-sdk10
java10
voice10
sdk10
android10
twilio-video10
android-audio10
bluetooth-headset10
webrtc10
twilio10
javascript9
audio9
collaboration9
boost9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
twilio/twilio-video-app-android
Feb 2016 - Oct 2022
A collaboration application built with the Twilio Video Android SDK
Contributions:20 reviews, 25 commits, 2 PRs in 6 years 9 months
twiliowebrtcandroidcollaborationsdk
twilio/audioswitch
Mar 2022 - Mar 2024
An Android audio management library for real-time communication apps.
Contributions:5 reviews, 1 comment in 2 years
android-audiotwiliowebrtcandroidcommunication
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