About

Jay Cherian is a customer-focused technical leader with over 22 years of experience in the telecom, media, and entertainment industry. He is currently employed at Google as a Customer Engineer for Cloud in the same industry. Jay is responsible for ensuring technical success in the journey towards increasing cloud adoption for his customers. He has a proven track record of designing and developing automated solutions to deploy and scale video encode/encrypt and origin infrastructure. Prior to joining Google, Jay worked at AT&T as a Senior Principal Architect in the Entertainment Group. During his tenure, he contributed to the development of a new product to deliver next-generation Live OTT Television to 2.5 million users, providing optimal viewing experiences across 850+ live streaming channels. He oversaw the architecture of applications for cloud-based and on-premises services, developed AWS architecture to define a disaster recovery strategy, and introduced a new analytics dashboard accessed by 500+ employees. Jay also introduced streamlined launching processes for new live channels, which improved velocity from two months to four days, and successfully achieved a 38% reduction in playback errors. Jay also worked at Infosys as a Senior Principal Architect in DirecTV/AT&T. In this role, he oversaw the development of applications and infrastructure for a multinational IT services company generating more than $10 billion in annual revenue. Jay created scalable architecture for the next-generation video encoding pipeline, introduced an automation framework to optimize infrastructure, application deployment, and media pipeline, and provided training and supervision to 125+ developers across multiple accounts. Jay holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from Karnatak University. He is skilled in Senior Software Engineering, infra, and AWS. Jay is a highly motivated individual with a passion for technology and a proven ability to deliver results.