Vladimir Zivkov

Background

About Vladimir Zivkov

General information- 13 years of engineering experience in Digital TV/STB and Connected TV field- 9 years of team and technical leading experience - direct contact with customers for DTV and Android powered STBs- Managing large teams (40-80 people) composed of different profiles (engs, PMs, QAs)- Project, Program and Product management roles - years in managing people, large operations, product development- Customer interfacing - dealing with Operators, OEMs, SoC vendors, Google, Netflix, Amazon, MW providers, etc- Strong background in following programming languages: C, C++ and Java- Embedded systems, real-time systems and apps development, OTT embedded players, Android + Linux OSs- Deep knowledge and hands on experience with Android - launched over years dozens of AndroidTV based STBs- Position of technical consultant for feasibility studies, large and complex operations planning and execution- Technical documentation writing skills. Technologies- Contact with most famous chip vendors, SDKs and BSPs- Profound knowledge of Android OS and AndroidTV based products- Profound knowledge of OTT players for embedded systems- Digital TV/STB related standards - DVB, ATSC, DTMB- Hands-on software development and design experience under Windows, Linux, Android and ThreadX environments- OTT systems, Multicast IPTV systems, DLNA, HbbTV- Android operating systems, Android platform under the hub, Google Mobile and TV Services for Android devices- Linux and RTOS, SW architecture, cross-compilation, makefiles, shell scripts, HW and SW debuggers- Network protocols (TCP, UDP, HTTP, SNMP, etc.) and CE-HTML standard- Test suites definition and review for TV/STB functional verification- Software control version systems: Git-Gerrit, Perforce, SVN.