Sathishkumar Kirupakaran
Senior Principal Architect at Comcast
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSathishkumar Kirupakaran is a Senior Principal Architect with over 15 years of application development experience, currently shaping Comcast’s X1 and XClass TV platforms from the NYC metro area. He led engineering for Emmy-winning voice remote control features and music-identification ("What Song is This") integrations, marrying embedded device protocols with large-scale backend services. Adept across Core Java, NodeJS, GRPC, Cassandra and front-end stacks, he designs multi-tenant, accessibility- and internationalization-ready systems and handles complex TV/AVR pairing, EDID and 4K/DRM challenges. He has a proven track record of onsite client ownership, offshore team leadership and technical mentoring from his Infosys days through his tenure at Comcast. Known for turning experimental lab concepts into production features, he blends pragmatic architecture with hands-on implementation to deliver user-facing, award-winning experiences.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc, Electronic Media, M.Sc, Electronic Media at Anna University Chennai
English, Tamil, Hindi, German
Github Skills (15)
user-experience9
video-streaming9
middleware9
openrpc9
rust8
sdk8
operating-system7
json-rpc7
javascript7
json-schema6
wpe6
rest6
ui-framework6
restful5
dynamodb4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rdkcentral/Ripple
Jun 2023 - Aug 2025
Ripple is a synonym for Firebolt Implementation, it is a Rust-based Application gateway that supports loading dynamic extensions. Ripple will provide a Firebolt Gateway which will be used by Distributors and App Developers to interact with the Application platform to discover, launch, and manage video streaming applications.
Contributions:13 releases, 467 reviews, 159 PRs in 2 years 2 months
rustvideo-streaming
rdkcentral/entservices-appgateway
Dec 2025 - May 2026
This repo contains the firebolt gateway implementation as a thunder plugin. This deprecates the ripple gateway in RDK Apps Managers Framework.
Contributions:47 reviews, 1 PR, 49 pushes in 4 months
entertainmentmiddleware
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