Arunkumar Balasubramanian

Arunkumar Balasubramanian

Sunnyvale, California, United States
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15 years of work experience in the Software Industry. I have worked on a wide range of…

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Experience

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    Apple

    Cupertino, California, United States

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    United States

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    Sunnyvale , CA

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    Sunnyvale

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    Sunnyvale

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    Sunnyvale

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Education

Volunteer Experience

  • Volunteer

    Yahoo Employee Foundation

    - Present 16 years

    Education

    Have been Volunteering for various events and causes at Yahoo Employee Foundation

Patents

  • Computerized System and Method For Automatic Highlight Detection From Live Streaming Media and Rendering within a Specialized Media Player

    Issued US 10681391

    Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content generating, searching, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, which can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods automatically…

    Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content generating, searching, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, which can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods automatically analyze a live streaming media file, and identify portions of the media that are highlights. The content classified as a highlight can be shared across social media platforms, and indexed for searching respective to attributes of the video content. The streaming and highlight media content is renderable in a novel, modified video player that enables variable playback speeds for how content is classified, and enables on-demand selections of specific content portions and adjustable rendering displays during streaming

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  • Generating Presentations Based Upon Articles

    Filed US 20200183552

    One or more computing devices and/or methods are provided. In an example, a request to generate a presentation may be received. The request may comprise an indication of an article. Content items may be extracted from the article. The content items may comprise one or more videos, one or more images and/or one or more social media posts. Text of the article may be analyzed to generate a plurality of text segments. The presentation, comprising a plurality of slides, may be generated based upon…

    One or more computing devices and/or methods are provided. In an example, a request to generate a presentation may be received. The request may comprise an indication of an article. Content items may be extracted from the article. The content items may comprise one or more videos, one or more images and/or one or more social media posts. Text of the article may be analyzed to generate a plurality of text segments. The presentation, comprising a plurality of slides, may be generated based upon the content items and the plurality of text segments. A first graphical user interface of a first client device may be controlled to display a presentation editing interface comprising a representation of the presentation. One or more inputs, corresponding to one or more edits to the presentation, may be received via the presentation editing interface. An edited presentation may be generated based upon the one or more inputs. A second request to present the edited presentation may be received from a second client device. A second graphical user interface of the second client device may be controlled to display the edited presentation.

    In an example, a request to generate a presentation may be received. The request may comprise an indication of an article (e.g., a news article, an educational article, etc.). Content items may be extracted from the article. The content items may comprise one or more videos, one or more images and/or one or more social media posts. Text of the article may be analyzed to generate a plurality of text segments. The presentation, comprising a plurality of slides, may be generated based upon the content items and the plurality of text segments. A second request to present the presentation may be received from a client device. A graphical user interface of the client device may be controlled to display the presentation

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  • Weather presentation

    Issued US 9807550

    Among other things, one or more client devices, techniques, and/or systems are provided for presenting weather conditions. A grid size of a first geohash cell (e.g., space subdivided into a grid), corresponding to a location of a user, is determined based upon supplemental factors (e.g., population density, elevation, topography, etc.). A first weather station, located in the first geohash cell, and a second weather station, located in a second geohash cell neighboring the first geohash cell…

    Among other things, one or more client devices, techniques, and/or systems are provided for presenting weather conditions. A grid size of a first geohash cell (e.g., space subdivided into a grid), corresponding to a location of a user, is determined based upon supplemental factors (e.g., population density, elevation, topography, etc.). A first weather station, located in the first geohash cell, and a second weather station, located in a second geohash cell neighboring the first geohash cell, are identified. A first distance from the first weather station to the location is determined, and a second distance from the second weather station to the location is determined. Responsive to the first distance being less than the second distance, information from the first weather station is presented to the user. Responsive to the second distance being less than the first distance, information from the second weather station is presented to the user.

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Projects

  • Slick - Text on Screen Video

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    Bootstrapped and built a team to create the infrastructure and tools for "Text on Screen Video" generation to scale video creation for Yahoo Network. This project helped video views across yahoo network by 100x and reached 1B video views within 2 Quarters of launch and increase Video revenue by millions. The tools and infrastructure were designed to create multi-aspect ratio videos on demand using hybrid cloud architecture (Yahoo - AWS) and set up standards to be used across Yahoo for hybrid…

    Bootstrapped and built a team to create the infrastructure and tools for "Text on Screen Video" generation to scale video creation for Yahoo Network. This project helped video views across yahoo network by 100x and reached 1B video views within 2 Quarters of launch and increase Video revenue by millions. The tools and infrastructure were designed to create multi-aspect ratio videos on demand using hybrid cloud architecture (Yahoo - AWS) and set up standards to be used across Yahoo for hybrid cloud

  • Yahoo eSports

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    Recruited and lead a team of frontend , backend and mobile engineers to build Yahoo eSports website, creator tools and mobile apps. Designed and built the industry first, Automated real-time highlight generation system using Deep Learning for various Moba games and also patented it.

  • Daily Fantasy Sports

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    Responsible for Architecture, Design and Leading the team to deliver a high performance system, fault tolerant and Multi COLO system for the Daily Fantasy Sports product.

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  • Weather Backend With Multi-Provider Support

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    Backend Lead for Low latency and High Throughput Weather Ingestion and Serving System with support for weather data from multiple providers

  • Weather Middleware for serving weather information along with Flickr images

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    Backend Lead for Weather Middleware system for serving weather information along with Flickr images

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  • Groups Chat Platfrom

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    Backend Lead for Developing Groups Chat Platform as a REST based service in Java

  • Hack Day Project - 2 way Commenting System

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    This hack enables 2-way commenting for any event between Yahoo network and a third party network. Gave a working demo on wordpress with comments flowing between "Yahoo updates widget and wordpress. So any comments on wordpress would show up immediately in "Yahoo Updates" widget and vice versa. The user could also filter the comments only from his friends. It was a full fledged working system with captcha integrated.

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  • Hack Day Project - Social Search

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    The concept of “Social Search” was to surface results/rank result for users based on what their friends/groups recommended or liked for a particular keyword. This is exactly what Google Plus does now when you do a search
    Some examples would be
    • When a user searches for a “javascript tutorials”, the top results would be results liked by your friends along with a facepile of the friends who liked that tutorial.
    • When a user searches for “Canon 5D”, the top results would be the ones…

    The concept of “Social Search” was to surface results/rank result for users based on what their friends/groups recommended or liked for a particular keyword. This is exactly what Google Plus does now when you do a search
    Some examples would be
    • When a user searches for a “javascript tutorials”, the top results would be results liked by your friends along with a facepile of the friends who liked that tutorial.
    • When a user searches for “Canon 5D”, the top results would be the ones liked/recommended by your friends or groups. The chances that the user clicks through the top results are higher than the other page ranking algorithms.

Honors & Awards

  • Excellence Award

    Yahoo!

    Won the Excellence Award at Yahoo! for being in the top 10% of the company

  • Excellence Award

    Yahoo! Inc

    Won the Excellence Award at Yahoo! for being in the top 10% of the company

  • Hackday Winner Spring 2014

    Yahoo! inc

    Won the HackDay for Backend Bakery which was a one stop solution for backend services like apis, storage, blob store, queuing and search using Yahoo's components.

  • Hackday Winner Summer 2013

    Yahoo! Inc

    Won the Overall Hackday Winner Prize for our iOS auto-uploader feature for Flickr app.

  • Yahoo Super Star - Intonow team

    Yahoo! inc

    IntoNow team received the Super Star award for 2012 for delivering an awesome product with high quality in a short time period. Super Star is the highest honor at Yahoo awarded for technical excellence

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Tamil

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Hindi

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Kannada

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Telugu

    Professional working proficiency

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