Pramod Shri

Founder & CEO at Knidal | Knowledge Management | Eternal Learner | Ex-Salesforce

Greater Bengaluru Area

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  • Min Investment:

    $500.00
  • Max Investment:

    $10,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $5,000.00

Work Experience

2024

  • Founder & CEO

    2024

    In a world abundant with knowledge content, the experience of accessing it often falls short. We strive to enhance this by making knowledge content easily accessible and readily available for enterprises and individuals. If you're passionate about technology and thrive in a startup environment, we want to hear from you! Join our team and lead the development of our creator tools. Send your resume to careers@knidal.com to be part of our innovative journey.

2021 - 2023

  • Co-Founder & CEO

    2021 - 2023

    Built an mLearning platform. Didn't work out. Learnt a ton of things.

2017 - 2019

  • Senior Member Of Technical Staff

    2017 - 2019

    Founding Backend Engineer of Next Gen Platform. Contributed to designing, architecting, and laying the foundation for various parts of the platform. Collaborated with PMs, engineers, QA engineers, architects, and designers. Technologies used: Java, Kotlin, GraphQL, NodeJS, Karate (Test Automation), Apollo GraphQL Gateway, PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, Spring Boot, Redis.

2016 - 2017

  • Software Engineer

    2016 - 2017

    Sole Engineer responsible for designing, architecting, and implementing the initial version of the Android Here One application and the CI/CD release automation infrastructure. Collaborated with Product Managers, QA engineers, Designers, iOS, and Backend engineers. Achieved 20 man-months of work on iOS in just 6 man-months on Android. Here One, Doppler Labs' flagship product, empowered users to control their live audio environment while streaming audio (music/phone calls) content from their phone. Doppler Labs ceased operations in 2017. Technologies: Augmented Audio, BLE, BTC, SweetBlue, Factual, Custom UI/UX, Location Services, Audio Recording, Travis

2013 - 2016

  • Senior Software Engineer

    2013 - 2016

    I worked in backend and frontend engineering roles for entertainment and internet startups. At Victorious, I designed and developed various Java-based micro-services serving mobile and web clients, utilizing AWS services like EC2, DynamoDB, S3, SNS, SQS, and Kinesis. I worked on cross-platform subscription and notification services. As the sole backend engineer, I contributed to a stealth mode video-stitching product, managing user registration, multimedia data, and audio/video transcoding. Additionally, I played a key role in designing, architecting, and implementing the micro-services style backend system, transitioning from a monolithic system. At Themer, an Android launcher app with 5M+ installs, I built crucial user-facing components. I created a platform for generating "Theme apps" to attract more users to Themer. I gained insight into the contractual obligations of Android Launchers and Widgets, developed custom UI widgets, and adhered to material design guidelines.

  • Research Associate

    2009 - 2013

    Most of the efforts during this time were for a company that spun off from the METIL lab through the business incubation program. I was involved in designing, architecting, and developing two generations of mLearning platforms, being responsible for the Android part of the platforms. Both platforms targeted the global market, operating in hi-fi, low-fi, and no-fi areas. I oversaw the development of other Android applications (mLearning, mHealth & conferences), and expanded/maintained an older mLearning platform. There were a few stints where I managed and supervised interns. I was one of the founding engineers of the team and witnessed the company's journey from idea to inception, and onboarding new customers. During this time, I worked directly with C-level officers and collaborated with designers, inter/intra-platform engineers, business, and sales teams. I participated in every step of the product development cycle, including support, maintenance, documentation, planning, and customer interfacing. I engaged in a lot of innovation, prototyping, and production-level implementations. I built the infrastructure for Android and also helped define processes for building and managing products. My engineering skills were both broadened and deepened, allowing me to own and manage multiple products simultaneously.

  • Researcher

    2009 - 2011

    Under Dr. Foroosh's guidance and mentorship, I had the opportunity to work on an exciting augmented reality system called "Virtual Book." This system enables the projection of digital data onto a rectangular area, allowing users to interact with the content using hand gestures in the world of Augmented Reality.

2010 - 2010

  • Linux System Administrator

    2010 - 2010

    Built a custom arch-linux based lightweight operating system for Touchrate's POS survey devices.

  • DSP Engineer

    2007 - 2009

    - Developed the Decoded Picture Buffer (DPB) Management for H.264 reference decoder which supports both Baseline and High Profiles, in-loop deblocking filter and CAVLC entropy coding. - Developed motion compensation, weighted prediction, DPB management, A novel algorithm for Error Concealment for both P and B frames for H.264 decoder on TI’s DM510 chip. I was also responsible for the Support of the product. - Ported the H.264 Decoder, Algorithmic and Code optimization of Motion Compensation to support 720p resolution videos on DM365 chip.