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title: "Sham Rathod - Senior Software Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Sham Rathod, Senior Software Engineer | Android AOSP | Media Framework | HAL | C++ | Android TV | Media3 based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes cursor and claudecode."
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# Sham Rathod on Tal

## Headline

Senior Software Engineer \| Android AOSP \| Media Framework \| HAL \| C\+\+ \| Android TV \| Media3

## About

Senior Software Engineer at Ittiam Systems, contributing to AOSP and AndroidX Media3 \(2\.7k\+ GitHub stars\) via Google's Piper infrastructure\. I authored WebmMuxer and OggMuxer — the first WebM/Matroska and Ogg muxers in AndroidX Media3 — now published in the official Android developer documentation\. I also delivered AacMuxer, B\-frame support with full PTS/DTS handling, Dolby Vision integration, and 10\+ codec integrations across Media3 and platform muxers/extractors\. Previously built the reference implementation and VTS test suite for 7 Android Audio AIDL Effects \(adopted as the vendor template across the Android ecosystem\) and designed resource conflict APIs for Android Tuner and MediaCas — both merged to AOSP\. AOSP contributions: https://android\-review\.googlesource\.com/q/author:sham\.rathod@ittiam\.com WebmMuxer docs: https://developer\.android\.com/reference/androidx/media3/muxer/WebmMuxer

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

cursor

claudecode

## Work experience

Senior Software Engineer at Ittiam Systems Pvt Ltd, Oct 2024 \- Present · 1 yr 11 mos

Software Development Engineer at Ittiam Systems Pvt Ltd, Jul 2022 \- Oct 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \- BE, Information Technology, Pune Institute of Computer Technology

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