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I'm currently a Director of Engineering at Disney Streaming, based out of Los Angeles, California.

Director of Software Engineering - Experience Management (2021 - Present)

Engineering director for the Experience Management organization, responsible for the team building tools & services to curate the experience and image delivery for Disney Streaming products (Hulu, Disney+, Star+)

Principal Software Developement Lead - Experience Management (2020 - 2021)

Engineering manager for the Experience Management dev team, responsible for the strategic priorities, vision and technical roadmap for the self-service tools and APIs used to configure the Hulu application across all client devices.

Senior Software Developement Lead - Experience Management (2017 - 2020)

Tech lead and engineering manager for the Experience Management dev team. The team is responsible for the technical design and architecture for the self-service tools and APIs used by internal Hulu stakeholders to manage the end-user Hulu application across all client devices.

Senior Software Developer - Experience Management (2016 - 2017)

Built fast and scalable APIs and tools to manage the end-user client applications for the marketing team. Features of the self-service tools include being able to promote content, add new collections, change UX themes and a customize the device experiences via a single backend service.

Software Developer - Content Platform (2014 - 2016)

Built content partner-facing tools and APIs to ingest, manage and distribute content metadata efficiently using ReactJS, Python and MySQL

Hulu LLC

Software Developer Intern

Worked on the Content Platform team, building web tools for the internal teams at Hulu. The primary technologies I used were Python, cherrypy, mysql and jQuery

Teradata Corporation (formerly Aprimo)
Worked on non-functional performance testing of the new builds of Aprimo's Marketing software using Microsoft Visual Studio, web-tests and performance counters under the Scrum Framework
Wrote various scripts to test performance and load efficiency and learned to analyze the results of non-functional testing

Delphi-Delco Electronics
Worked on Automated Testing of automobile software using C# and Microsoft Visual Studio

Purdue University Discovery Park
Developed gadgets for scientific visualization and gateways
using GWT, JavaScript and Java

Master of Science
Computer Science - Graphics & Visualization Track

Courses
UI Design, 3D User Interface Design, Augmented Reality
Computer Animation, Database System Implementation
Testing of Web Applications, Business of Software Delivery

Research Experience
Leap Motion Controller
Designing and Testing robotic swipe gestures for
accompaniment with head-worn displays

Bachelor of Science
Major: Computer Science - Graphics & Visualization Track
Minor: Psychology

Courses
Operating Systems, Computer Graphics, Compilers
Algorithms, Computer Architecture
Shakespeare, Introduction to Acting

Research Experience
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Efficient rendering of medical images from CTs on massively
parallel architectures

Darshana Umakanth
Director of Software Engineering at Disney Streaming

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