About

Rahul Kumar is an experienced Engineering Manager at Akamai Technologies, with over 17 years of relevant experience in Digital TV and Set-top Box platform development. He has extensive knowledge and expertise in drivers and middleware development, integration, maintenance, and issue resolution. Rahul's specialties include Transport Stream Demuxer, DVB Subsystem, MPEG Systems, RTSP, Multimedia Frameworks (FFMPEG, Gstreamer), and streaming protocols (RTSP and HTTP). He possesses a good understanding of MPEG Systems, video codecs, transport stream demuxers, and media parsers (TS/PS/AVI/MP4/3GPP/ASF/VRO/VOB). In his previous roles, Rahul has been involved in the front-end TS Demuxer firmware and driver architecture for Set Top Box and DTV systems, AV sync, PVR on Trinity and Pecos Chips for Set-top box, H.264, MPEG4/2, H.263, DivX video compression, RTSP, HTTP network stack development from scratch for DTV Platform, and media player development (FFMPEG Based) for DTV Platform. Rahul has worked with top companies in the industry, including Entropic Communications and Samsung, where he held the positions of Staff Engineer and Senior Lead Engineer, respectively. Rahul holds a B.Tech. in Electronics and Communications Engineering from YMCA Institute of Engineering and a Senior Secondary degree from NYPS HISAR. His tech stack includes senior software engineering, integration, frontend, and mobile. As an Engineering Manager at Akamai, Rahul continues to leverage his extensive experience and expertise to drive innovation and deliver top-quality solutions.