Anil Thomas

Current

• Technical Leader at Cisco Systems

Past

• Software Engineer at NCSA
• Software Engineer at Vosaic
• Systems Engineer at Siemens

• Software Engineer at Ampersand

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Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• National Institute of Technology Karnataka

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website

Anil Thomas’s Summary

Software architect and developer, specializing in elegant solutions to complex problems. Emphasis on innovation, simplicity and maintainability.

Anil Thomas’s Specialties:

Multimedia streaming, distributed systems, object oriented design, code refactoring, optimization algorithms.

Anil Thomas’s Experience

• Technical Leader

  Cisco Systems

  (Public Company; Computer Networking industry)

  1998 — Present (11 years )

  Actively participated in growing an entrepreneurial team from 3 people to 40. Helped with on-site interviews in Shanghai, China. Took part in the design and implementation of a high performance ad splicer prototype. Designed and implemented a streaming cache that gracefully handles fragmented data.
  
  Led a team of engineers in the development of an enterprise media streaming system. Mentored an offshore team based in Chennai, India. Architected and oversaw the integration of a content distribution product with a media streaming product. Built a media compiler that packetizes media files and produces bytecode for a virtual machine.
  
  Integrated advanced video codecs into a video conferencing system.

• Software Engineer

  NCSA

  (Computer Software industry)

  1997 — 1998 (1 year )

  Participated in the development of a video conferencing application.

• Software Engineer

  Vosaic

  (Computer Software industry)

  1997 — 1997 (less than a year)

  Worked on Video Mosaic, a media streaming system.

• Systems Engineer

  Siemens

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  1995 — 1996 (1 year )

  Worked with an engineering team in Braunshweig, Germany on the development of a railway control system.

• Software Engineer

  Ampersand

  (Computer Software industry)

  1994 — 1995 (1 year )

  Participated in the development of a Mainframe emulator.

Anil Thomas’s Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  MS , Computer Science , 1996 — 1998

• National Institute of Technology Karnataka

  B.Tech , Computer Engineering , 1990 — 1994

Additional Information

Anil Thomas’s Websites:

• My Website

Anil Thomas’s Interests:

IPTV, quantitative equity analysis, recommender systems, technology innovations, skiing, photography.

Anil Thomas’s Groups:

SCTE

•    Systems Research Group

Anil Thomas’s Honors:

Netflix Prize: devised and implemented algorithms to obtain an improvement of 7% over the current recommender system.

Founded open source project LiveScreen, a client-less remote desktop solution.

Seven patents pending in the area of multimedia streaming, content routing and video processing.

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