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title: "Asim Aashish - Staff Engineer in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Asim Aashish, Staff Engineer at Videoverse | IIT Roorkee | 2x founding engineer | Real-Time Systems · Distributed Infra · Video & AI Tech | TypeScript · Node.js · Python · React · AWS · Microservices based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes antigravity and codex."
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# Asim Aashish on Tal

## Headline

Staff Engineer at Videoverse \| IIT Roorkee \| 2x founding engineer \| Real\-Time Systems · Distributed Infra · Video &amp; AI Tech \| TypeScript · Node\.js · Python · React · AWS · Microservices

## About

Staff Backend Engineer specializing in distributed, real\-time systems; re\-architected monoliths to microservices and built high\-throughput, low\-latency platforms \(Node\.js, Python, CRDTs, WebSockets, WebRTC\), led teams, and delivered 0→1 products across video, collaboration, and ad\-tech with a focus on scalability and CI/CD\. With 10\+ years of experience in software engineering, I specialize in designing scalable systems, microservices architecture, and high\-throughput data pipelines\. Currently, as a Staff Engineer at VideoVerse, I am dedicated to leveraging cutting\-edge technologies to deliver innovative video automation solutions\. Passionate about empowering teams to excel, I am driven to contribute to creating seamless, efficient, and impactful video content platforms that align with VideoVerse's mission of enhancing digital storytelling\. At VideoVerse, I led the modernization of a monolithic architecture, implementing scalable microservices and standardized CI/CD pipelines with Terraform\. My contributions include designing automated video processing pipelines with SAM2 and FFmpeg, enabling real\-time highlight generation from live\-streamed content\. Collaborating closely with a team of engineers, I focus on system architecture, code quality, and efficient delivery of robust solutions for distributed workflows\.

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## AI stack

antigravity

codex

## Work experience

Staff Engineer at VideoVerse, Jan 2022 \- Present · 4 yrs 8 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, \- Re\-architected a legacy monolith into a scalable microservices architecture, improving system modularity and deployment velocity; implemented standardized CI/CD pipelines using Terraform for infrastructure\-as\-code\. \- Led and mentored a team of 6\-8 engineers, worked on architectural decisions, database design, design system, code quality, and delivery timelines across multiple services\. \- Designed and implemented an automated replay detection pipeline using SAM2 and FFmpeg, enabling real\-time highlight generation from live\-streamed video content\. \- Built high\-throughput data ingestion pipelines to process large\-scale data feeds, enabling automated video clip cutting, merging, and transformation workflows\. \- Leveraged state\-of\-the\-art LLMs to generate structured metadata for live video clips, enabling semantic search, improved retrieval accuracy, and enhanced user experience\.

Lead Engineer at VideoVerse, Jan 2024 \- Dec 2024 · 1 yr

Founding Engineer at Let’s Dive, Sep 2020 \- Dec 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \- Served as a founding engineer, building multiple zero\-to\-one products to achieve product\-market fit \(PMF\) in a fast\-paced startup environment\. \- Designed and developed a real\-time video conferencing platform like Google Meet from scratch, supporting scalable, low\-latency communication\. \- Architected and implemented a CRDT\-based collaborative editing system, ensuring conflict\-free, low\-latency synchronization across clients and enabling a Notion\-like real\-time user experience\. \- Implemented real\-time activity frameworks within a conferencing platform to support interactive workflows, shipped 20\+ collaborative multiplayer games leveraging shared state and low\-latency sync in 4 months\. \- Developed recording and transcription pipelines integrated with Zoom and Google Meet, enabling automated meeting capture, processing, and searchable transcripts\.

Software Developer 2 at ShareChat, Oct 2018 \- Sep 2020 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \- Managed and scaled ShareChat's Progressive Web App \(PWA\), supporting 500K\-1M daily active users with high availability and performance\. \- Built a React Native module integrated with an Android app via fragments to enable gifting functionality and analytics tracking\. \- Built internal dashboards for business teams to onboard and manage celebrity creators, streamlining content acquisition workflows\. \- Developed high\-throughput content moderation and review tools, enabling efficient processing of \~50K posts per day\. \- Engineered backend systems for ad ingestion and delivery, optimizing CPM and CPC performance through self\-serve ad tooling and targeting pipelines\. \- Designed and launched a fantasy cricket platform, Jeet11 \(like Dream11\), delivering end\-to\-end functionality within a rapid 3\-week development cycle\.

Frontend Developer at Media\.net, Jul 2017 \- Oct 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos, Mumbai, •Engineered a unified email marketing system integrating Amazon SES, SendGrid, and VR Classic, enabling reliable multi\-provider delivery, campaign orchestration, and improved deliverability through backend services in Laravel and Node\.js with a React frontend\.

Software Developer at PSTakecare, Aug 2016 \- Jul 2017 · 1 yr, Mumbai Metropolitan Region, •Developed a real\-time chat platform connecting doctors and patients, using Elixir and Ruby for backend services and Angular/React for frontend applications\. •Built an embeddable React\-based chat widget, enabling seamless integration of patient communication workflows across third\-party websites\. •Designed and implemented an agent dashboard for support teams, enabling real\-time patient interaction, query triaging, and broadcast routing to specialized doctors\.

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \(BTech\), Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

## Profile highlights

What I'm currently working on: At VideoVerse, I am currently architecting scalable video processing pipelines to enhance our real\-time editing capabilities\. My focus is on optimizing high\-concurrency workflows to improve overall platform performance and user experience\.

what i've built with AI: I engineered AI\-driven automated video editing pipelines at VideoVerse that drastically reduce manual production time\. By integrating computer vision models, I built scalable systems that intelligently identify and highlight key moments in raw footage\.

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