About

Sanjay Soni is a Senior Engineering Manager at Whatfix with over 14 years of experience in product design, architecture, development, customer delivery, and people management. He is a systematic, persistent, and result-oriented leader with a long history of successful project completions in engineering and managerial roles. Sanjay is known for his problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills, which have helped him create positive work environments for his team. Sanjay's skill set includes RESTful microservices, AWS infrastructure and technologies, J2EE, Jetty, Cloud, Springboot, Django-Python, Apache, JSON, No-SQL DB like Dynamo, Mongo, and Debian packaging. He is well-versed in protocols such as RTP/RTCP, SIP, SDP, TCP/IP, and UDP, as well as multimedia middleware development and the integration of AV codecs (H.264, MPEG2, MPEG4, MP3, AAC, AC3, etc.). Sanjay has good knowledge of video systems and has experience in Microsoft DirectShow filter development, Freeswitch, Open Max, ffmpeg, Direct-show, GStreamer, and WM-DRM. He is also proficient in multi-threading, data structures, and algorithms. Currently, Sanjay is working at Whatfix, where he has developed a centralized back-end server using Python-Django-Apache that exposes REST-based services to Lifesize products for their log management and analysis. He has added PSTN dial-in features to the Lifesize UVC platform/cloud using REST-based PSTN service providers (e.g., Tropo, Plivo, Twilio, etc.) API. Sanjay has also worked in the SIP communication team to provide several features that enable room-based systems to seamlessly connect with the Lifesize cloud. He developed the Lifesize UVC Video Engine product, which provides real-time transcoding between H264 and Microsoft RTVideo codec so that Lifesize Room-based systems can become interoperable with Microsoft Lync. Before joining Whatfix, Sanjay worked at Bluejeans Network as an Engineering Manager and at Lifesize as a Lead Engineer. At both companies, he developed a centralized back-end server using Python-Django-Apache that exposed REST-based services to Lifesize products for their log management and analysis. He also added PSTN dial-in features to the Lifesize UVC platform/cloud using REST-based PSTN service providers (e.g., Tropo, Pl