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Altanai Bisht

Network Protocols Specialist | Author | Innovator

Senior Software Engineer at Cisco | WebRTC Expert | Open Source Contributor

Senior Software Engineer

Cisco Systems | WebRTC & Real-Time Communications Expert

Seattle, Washington, United States
14+ Years Experience
50+ Open Source Projects
15+ Research Publications
1 Published Book

Specialized in SDWAN, VPN, Secure CPaaS, and carrier-grade WebRTC-SIP platforms for Unified communication-collaboration, signaling gateways, SBC, soft turrets and telecom integrations. Currently contributing to Cisco's SASE architecture including control plane of VPN headends connecting to cybersecurity core and Cisco Umbrella via tunneling protocols.


Core Expertise: Protocol Design, Ultra-low-latency Real-time Media Streaming, WebRTC Implementation, Network Security, Distributed Systems Architecture, and Open Source Development.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer - Cisco Meraki Secure Connect (2023 - Present)

  • IC in Cisco's SASE including control plane of VPN headends connecting to cybersecurity core, Cisco Umbrella, via tunneling protocols.
  • Primary contributor to HA enhancement and Multi Uplinks implementation, IKEv2 integration in AutoVPN proprietary system.
  • Successfully grew flagship Meraki product from GA to 862 customers as of June 2025.
  • Led development of secure cloud-based VPN solutions with focus on high availability and performance optimization.

Transport Protocol R&D Intern at Netflix Open Connect (2022)

  • Conducted R&D on streaming algorithms for ultra-low latency and highly-interactive RTP/RTCP streaming applications.
  • Leveraged heuristics for rate adaptation, bandwidth estimation, congestion control, and loss recovery of RTP/UDP media streams.
  • Contributed to Netflix's next-generation transport protocol for enhanced streaming performance.

WebRTC Developer Intern at WebRTC.ventures (2022)

  • Analyzed ICE metrics and programmed WebRTC telephony prototypes using SFU, MCU, and hybrid architectures.
  • Implemented solutions with Janus and Freeswitch for real-time communication applications.
  • Optimized TURN and ICE performance for enhanced connectivity and media quality.

Core Lead Engineer at Airtel IQ (2020)

  • Led development team for VoIP core implementation using Asterisk libraries for Airtel's cloud telephony offering.
  • Architected solutions for Asia's leading telecom provider serving massive influx of large-scale customers.
  • Delivered carrier-grade cloud telephony solutions with focus on scalability and reliability.

Senior Software Engineer at Plivo Zentrunk (2018 - 2020)

  • Led product shaping and crucial optimizations of the SIP platform for Plivo's SIP trunking solution.
  • Owned inbound call flows, SRTP security, Call Insights, hangup codes, CDR, and media route optimization.
  • Implemented call handover leveraging PoP architecture while actively onboarding SME customers globally.
  • Won company's first-ever Best Performer award within 3 months of joining.

Software Engineer at IPC Unigy 360 via TechMahindra (2016 - 2018)

  • Core member of product development team for soft turret financial communications platform.
  • Architected and programmed microservice-based WebSocket signaller, queues, caches, NoSQL DBs, REST and SIP services.
  • Built no-latency, secure audio call platform integrating Genband Spidr gateway and Radisys Media Server.
  • Won McGyver Award for Technical Excellence and Pat on Back awards for efficient deliveries.

Software Engineer at Above Solutions (2014 - 2016)

  • Built TangoFX suite of CaaS and live streaming solutions as independent pluggable modules.
  • Developed Jiyo platform's live streaming service (Jiyo NOW) with complete ownership of architecture and implementation.
  • Created transcoders for WebRTC to legacy codecs (H264) using FFmpeg, GStreamer, and media codec libraries.
  • Implemented adaptive streaming, session security, and AWS CloudFront CDN distribution.

Software Engineer at Telecom Practice Labs, TCS (2011 - 2014)

  • Core member conceptualizing Telecom Service Orchestration and Transformation Engine.
  • Designed WebRTC flow to IMS/SIP Servlets and telecom core via IN-SIP, SIP-Web using RhinoTAS and Mobicents.
  • Developed SIP applications in IMS platform, designed call flows for end-to-end telecom applications.
  • Won Company Technical Excellence Award for 2013 and TCS Gems award.

Teaching Experience

  • Computer Networks at Seattle University
  • Robotics to underprivileged children at Dream Design Tobotics Program
  • Placement Coordinator in undergrad

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science

Seattle University (January 2021 - December 2022, GPA: 3.83/4.0)

Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology

Anna University Chennai (June 2007 - June 2011, 77% out of 100)

Enterprise Projects

I have worked on following enterprise projects in various capacities

Cisco Secure Connect and Cisco Secure Access

Core contributor to propertiary protocol design and developemnt on AutoVPN

Netflix OpenConnect as Research Intern

Netflix Open Connect is a content delivery network (CDN) owned and operated by Netflix. It is designed to deliver high quality video streaming to Netflix subscribers around the world. The CDN consists of a network of servers strategically located in various regions to cache and deliver Netflix content efficiently. By bringing content closer to users, Open Connect helps reduce latency and improve streaming performance.

AirtelIQ

AirtelIQ is a cloud-based communication platform that provides businesses with a range of communication and engagement solutions. It offers services such as voice calls, SMS, email, and chat, allowing businesses to connect with their customers through multiple channels.

Plivo Zentrunk

Plivo Zentrunk is a cloud-based communication service for large volume voice calls.

Unigy360

Unigy 360 is a unified communications platform designed for the financial services industry. It provides a comprehensive suite of communication and collaboration tools, including voice, video, messaging, and conferencing capabilities. Unigy 360 aims to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and improve communication among teams within financial institutions.

Unified Communication and collaboration WebRTC Platform

The WebRTC client is a web based sip phone for communication without any plugins or installations. It is bundled with RCS (rich services) like phonebook syncing, voicemail, geolocation, oauth, advertisement engine. WebRTC socket.io Signaller and Websocket gateway to convert SIP over Websockets to SIP. Customer : Elisa, rich interest from another European telecom operator

Jiyo Health

B2C health and wellness platform product. Partners include Moxtra, Apollo Hospitals, Deepak Chopra foundation among others. I owned and implemented Livestreaming service called Jiyo NOW. Server APIs over php for scheduling clasrooms, broadcasts, notifications, authorization etc. .

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WebRTC Live streaming using Wowza

LiveStreaming Solutions is a publisher to player setup including authentication, transcoders, multiformatting, adaptive bit rate, CDN distribution and is device agnostic.
Tools : Wowza Streaming engine for HLS and RTMP, AWS ec2, cloudfront, flex, flash, JS, codecs, ffmpeg, gstreamer , gocoder Media Live Encoder

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TangoFX chrome Extension

TangoFX Sessions is a plug and play platform for Internet calling with collaborative tools like Code, Draw, Screenshare, multi language realtime translation while talking, 2 player games. TFX is essentially just the core platform exposing the APIs to let developers make their own interactive widgets over existing communication framework. Few widgets developed by contributors include chess, face detection. I designed and developed TFX a chrome webrtc extension and standalone platform with modular structure and set of APIs and SDK to plugin and play as widget. COTURN Integration and enhancement on custom TURN server for ICE and NAT traversal

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IVR based Call Completion

Interactive Voice Respondent with DTMF inputs I programmed the JAINSLEE logic and tested on Open IMS platform
Tools: OpenCloud SDK, FSM tool, Rhino TAS, Open IMS, Monster SIP/IMS Softphones, Wireshark, Voxpilot Media Server, Darwin Streaming Server, Kannel SMS Gateway

Session Mobility

Session Mobility is an application which allows the user to change the access networks. With this application in place, a user attending a VOIP or SIP call on his mobile device can transfer the voice session to another device My roles was to o Designing use cases and call flows. o Program the SIP servlets and deploy on Weblogic Sip Server o Develop VXML scripts for Media Server
Tools : OpenCloud SDK, FSM tool, Open IMS, Weblogic SIP Server, Monster SIP/IMS, Softphones, Wireshark, Voxpilot Media Server, Darwin Streaming Server

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Service Orchestration and Transformation Engine

Customer is a Belgium Based Service Provider Enables reusing the existing telecom core services by allowing orchestration between IN–IN services, IN–SIP services, SIP–SIP services and SIP-Web services. I designed and developed SIP services like Call Screening, Find Me Follow Me, Call Transferring, Voice Mail. I defined and executed interaction logic between SIP servlets. Configuration of OpenCloud Service broker platform. Independently handling various tasks assigned with precision and quality within stipulated time.
Tools : OpenCloud SDK, FSM tool, Open IMS, Rhino VAS, Softphones, Wireshark

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Open Source Projects

This is a non-exhaustive list. Please visit github.com/altanai for all projects.

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Technical Expertise

Focused on real-time streaming and communication through protocol innovation and system optimization.
Extensive experience spanning from low-level networking protocols to distributed system architecture, with particular expertise in ultra-low latency applications and carrier-grade telecommunications platforms.

Networking & Security

  • SD-WAN, SASE, VPN Headends
  • AutoVPN, IKEv2, IPSec, MASQUE
  • Multi Uplinks, HA Enhancement
  • NAT Traversal, Tunneling Protocols
  • Cisco Umbrella Integration
  • Traffic Analysis: tshark, sipP, tcpdump, sngrep, iperf

RealTime Communication & Streaming

  • WebRTC, Ultra-low Latency UDP Packetization
  • Rate Adaptation, Bandwidth Estimation, Congestion Control
  • Loss Recovery, RTP/RTCP Stream Optimization
  • SIP Trunks: Kamailio, Asterisk, Freeswitch, Opensips
  • SDP Manipulation, Call Routing, SRTP Security
  • Media Servers: Wowza, Live555, Janus, RTPengine
  • RTP Topologies: Mesh, MCU, SVC, SFU, Mixers, Bridges
  • Transcoding: FFmpeg, GStreamer, H264, VP8/VP9

Programming Languages

  • Rust (Systems Programming)
  • C (Low-level Networking)
  • Java (Enterprise Applications)
  • Go (Microservices, Performance)
  • Python (ML, Automation, APIs)
  • Node.js & JavaScript (Real-time Apps)
  • C++ (Media Processing)

System Design & Architecture

  • Scalable System Design
  • Distributed Systems across PoPs
  • Serverless, Event-driven Systems
  • Distributed Reliable Queues
  • Microservices Architecture
  • High Availability (HA) Systems
  • Performance Optimization
  • Load Balancing & CDN Integration

    Books

    WebRTC Integrator's Guide Book Cover

    WebRTC Integrator's Guide

    by Altanai Bisht
    2014
    A comprehensive resource for developers and telecom engineers aiming to master WebRTC technology and build robust real-time communication solutions. The book covers setting up scalable WebRTC infrastructures, integrating WebRTC with SIP, IMS, and legacy PSTN systems, and offers insights into protocol interconversion and codec transcoding. Structured to simplify intricate concepts, making it accessible for learners with basic telecom and programming background.

    Patents

    • Multimedia conferencing
      Authors: F. Afsari, A. Bisht, P. Parvarandeh, & S. Dhote
      Year: 2019
      US Patent 10,353,663

    Technical Disclosures

    • Tunnel Weight Algorithm to Improve Virtual Private Network Performance (2023) - Altanai Bisht
    • Multi-Modal Contextual Search for Enterprise Content (2024) - Sabra, A., Gopikrishnan, R., Bisht, A., Dahir, H., Babu, K. B. H., & Kini, S. (2024). MULTI-MODAL CONTEXTUAL SEARCH FOR ENTERPRISE CONTENT.

    Internet Stanadard proposal

  • Path Selection in Multi Tunnel SD-WAN
    IETF 117 Proceedings (2023) [ Proposal ] [ Video ]

Research Papers and Preprints

Publications reflecting contributions in WebRTC, VoIP, CNN, video processing, cryptocurrency environmental impact, and renewable energy implementations.

2023
arXiv Preprint
Low Latency Video Denoising for Online Conferencing Using CNN Architectures
Bisht, A., Mendes, A. C. de S., Thoreson, J. D., II, & Samavi, S.
arXiv:2302.08638
2022
arXiv Preprint
Does Crypto Kill? Relationship Between Electricity Consumption, Carbon Footprints and Bitcoin Transactions
Bisht, A., Wilson, A., Jeffreys, Z., & Samavi, S.
arXiv:2206.03227
2021
Research Paper
Carbon Footprint by Battery Based Energy Storage and Peak Shaving Algorithms
Bisht, A.
Earth Talks 2022, Seattle University
2019
Conference Paper
Ramudroid: An Open Source Powered Robot
Bisht, A.
Open Source India Conference
2018
IEEE Conference
Export and Import of Renewable Energy by Hybrid MicroGrid via IoT
Aagri, D. K., & Bisht, A.
IEEE IoT-SIU Conference
2017
Technical Paper
TangoFX Sessions WebRTC Chrome Extension
Bisht, A.
Academia.edu
2012
Whitepaper
WebRTC Whitepaper
Bisht, A.
Academia.edu
2011
Research Project
Information Highway: Digital Key-Controlled Vehicle Access System
Bisht, A.
ResearchGate
Integration of mobile devices, vehicles, and internet using GSM, GPS, and GIS technologies.
2010
Technical Report
Latest Trends in IT Enterprise Content Management System
Bisht, A.
Academia.edu
2008
Technical Report
Internet Access to Rural Areas Using Wi-Fi Technology
Bisht, A.
Academia.edu

    Technical Articles

    • ICE in WebRTC: Server Setup and Relative Performance [ Blog post ]
    • Configuring FreeSWITCH as a WebRTC MCU Media Server [ Blog post ]
    • Energy Efficiency in WebRTC Video Conferencing Topologies [ Blog post ]
    • Self-hosted TURN and Our Experience Using Subspace [ Blog post ]

    Hactkathons

    These accomplishments highlight my proficiency in leveraging emerging technologies to create innovative solutions.
    • Microsoft Azure AI Hackathon
      Year: 2021
      [ Article ]
    • Blockchain and Peer to Peer VOIP communication over WebRTC in Post Covid Hack 2020
      Year: 2020
      [ Slides ] [ Article ] [ Video ] [ Sourcecode ]
    • Redis based tracker for the spread of a Pandemic in Redis 'Beyond Cache' Hackathon
      Year: 2020
      [ Submission ]

Presentations

Path Selection in Multi Tunnel SD-WAN
IETF 117
2023
Carbon Footprint Analysis from Web and Phone Calls
Seattle University Big Data Course
2022
Energy Efficient VoIP Systems
RTC Conf and Expo IEEE at Illinois Tech
2021
Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance
Seattle University Distributed Systems Course
2021
Machine Learning in VoIP
Women in Data Science (WiDS) Mysuru
2020
WebRTC Development and Applications
jQuery Conference
2016
Real-time Communication Technologies
KrankyGeek WebRTC Conference
2016
Blockchain and Peer-to-Peer Communications
Blockchain Summit
2020
IoT Cleaning Robot Development
BarCamp Bangalore
2015

Awards and Honors

2025
Winner at Microsoft's Azure AI Hackathon
Microsoft Azure
Recognition for innovative AI solution among the first 50 qualifying entries in the competitive hackathon.
2020
Work Appreciation Award
Airtel IQ
Recognition by CIO and Head of Cloud and Security business for outstanding contributions to cloud telephony platform.
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2018
McGyver Award for Technical Excellence
IPC Systems
Awarded for innovative technical solutions and exceptional problem-solving in financial communications systems.
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2018
Pat on the Back Award
Tech Mahindra
Recognition for exceptional performance and quality deliveries in client projects.
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2013
TCS Gems for Company Technical Excellence
Tata Consultancy Services
Awarded for outstanding technical contributions and innovative solutions in telecom service orchestration.
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2012
ILP Kudos Award
Tata Consultancy Services
Recognition during Initial Learning Program for exceptional performance and dedication.
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2011
Best Final Year Project - Information Highway
Anna University
Integration of mobile devices, vehicles, and internet using GSM, GPS, and GIS. Secured 100% marks and "Best Project" award.
2011
First Position - QQuest Case Analysis
Anna University
First place in competitive case analysis competition demonstrating analytical and problem-solving skills.
2010
2nd Position - Data Capturing Technology
Veltech University & Sai Ram Engineering College
Second place for project on Automatic Data Capturing and Geo-location Technology using J2ME, RFID, and Wireless technologies.
2010
2nd Position - Electronic Content Management
GKM Engineering College & DMI College
Second place for Electronic Content Management System (ECMS) project demonstrating software development excellence.

Media Coverage

2025
Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Telecom
Thinkers360
Annual ranking recognizing global expertise and influence in telecommunications industry.
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2022
Seattle U Graduate Students Are Building a Droid That Collects Trash
The Spectator
Feature article on the autonomous cleaning robot project developed during graduate studies.
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2022
How I Built an Autonomous Cleaning Robot
InvideLabs
Technical showcase and interview discussing the development process of RamuDroid cleaning robot.
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2022
Featured Developer Profile
WebRTC.ventures
"Here at WebRTC.ventures, we pride ourselves on offering our clients the opportunity to work with extremely bright developers, like Altanai."
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2019
Featured Speaker
Open Source India
Speaker profile and session details for Open Source India conference presentation.
Speaker Info
2022
RamuDroid: Autonomous Cleaning Robot
UNext Learning
Interview discussing the thought process and technical approach behind the garbage-picking robot project.
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Contact

Location: Seattle, WA

Phone: +1 (425) 516-9961

Email: altanai@outlook.com

Website: telecom.altanai.com

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