Mahantesh Hiremath

Project Descriptions

• BT MeetMe with Dolby Voice: Cross-platform (Android/iOS) high-definition audio conferencing service featuring spatial voice separation, participant audio levelling, and active noise suppression to simulate an in-person meeting experience.
• BT Mobile (My BT App): Comprehensive management tool for Android and iOS that enables customers to track real-time data/voice usage, manage multiple SIM accounts, securely process billing, and monitor service status.
• Relay UK: Regulated, multi-platform assistive communication service (Android, iOS, Windows, and macOS) providing real-time phone call accessibility for deaf and speech-impaired users through live relay assistants.

Key Contributions

• High-Scale Releases: Successfully managed over 80+ high-impact launches—reaching millions of public users and company-wide "closed user" audiences—across the Android Play Store, Apple App Store and Microsoft Store.
• Requirement Refinement: Collaborated with stakeholders to clarify business requirements, ensuring precise and targeted testing focus.
• Launch Coordination: Orchestrated end-to-end testing activities to ensure high-quality, successful product deployments.
• Quality Assurance: Executed manual testing protocols to validate software functionality and ensure adherence to quality standards.
• Strategic Planning: Developed and implemented comprehensive test strategies to optimise testing efficiency and coverage.
• Process Optimisation: Streamlined testing workflows to accelerate bug detection, resolution, and overall system stability.

Project Description

• Veritas InfoMap: An enterprise-grade visibility platform providing a unified, user-friendly GUI for monitoring data assets across diverse cloud storage environments.
• Common Connector Framework (CCF): A standardised architectural layer that exposes APIs to enable the development of modular, reusable data connectors.
• Metadata Orchestration: Leverages CCF to automate data store scanning and discovery, retrieving critical metadata for internal analysis and platform-wide consumption.
• Parallel Execution: Provides comprehensive lifecycle management and context handling, allowing multiple connectors to operate concurrently for high-performance data processing.

Key Contributions

• Connector Development: Engineered 5 cloud-native connectors to facilitate seamless data extraction and ingestion from various cloud storage providers.
• Data Standardisation: Developed a processing pipeline to transform raw cloud data into JSON format, ensuring compatibility with the broader Veritas ecosystem and enterprise dashboards.
• System Certification: Validated connector performance and security in standalone mode to certify readiness for enterprise-level integration.
• End-to-End Automation: Built an automated testing framework using Cucumber (BDD) to verify full-stack functionality and data integrity across all Veritas architectural layers.

Project Descriptions

• Google Photos: A cross-platform mobile application that provides unlimited cloud storage for high-resolution photos (up to 16MP) and videos (up to 1080p), with seamless multi-device synchronisation via automatic backup.
• Google+: An interest-based social network featuring user profiles, Circles, Streams, and Communities, integrated with Google’s identity and privacy services.
• Google Maps: A comprehensive navigation app offering satellite imagery, real-time traffic, and turn-by-turn directions for driving, transit, biking, and walking, including Street View functionality.

Key Contributions

• Test Program Management: Led end-to-end test management for a global team of 10+ members, overseeing the strategic planning, execution, and documentation of mobile releases.
• High-Scale Releases: Successfully managed over 100+ high-impact launches—reaching millions of public users and company-wide "dogfood" audiences—across the Android Play Store and Apple App Store.
• Product Portfolio: Directed the quality assurance and release sign-off for flagship applications, including Google Maps, Google+, and Google Photos, between 2008 and 2014.
• Release Lifecycle: Owned the full release lifecycle, ensuring all mobile deployments met rigorous standards for stability and performance prior to public distribution.

Project Description

• Agilent.com: The primary e-commerce and support portal for Agilent Technologies, facilitating global sales and technical documentation for electronic measurement products.
• Agilent Management Support: A dedicated infrastructure team responsible for the continuous maintenance, performance optimisation, and operational support of the enterprise website.

Key Contributions

• Backend Operations: Managed all daily and monthly backend processes to ensure high availability and consistent website performance.
• Database Administration: Oversaw critical database activities, including environment setups, data refreshes, and the configuration of replication for data redundancy.
• Issue Resolution: Provided Tier-3 support for complex backend challenges, specialising in diagnosing and resolving database-level bottlenecks and errors.
• Unix Deployment: Executed application deployments by managing JAR file distributions and configurations within a production UNIX environment.
• Process Automation: Developed and maintained custom Shell scripts to automate repetitive system tasks and batch jobs, increasing operational efficiency.