Vygintas Kazanavicius

• Leading the technical organization responsible for TeliaPlay's streaming service content and metadata management across all our Nordic markets
• Overseeing the development and operation of the content platform, ensuring high-quality content aggregation, normalization, and catalog delivery
• Implementing automated quality control and content enrichment processes to enhance the customer viewing experience
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to achieve customer-centric goals
• Contributing to the overall tech leadership group, addressing strategic issues and guiding technological investments

• Focus team on Telia Play service development
• Integrated second major enrichment partner SimplyTV and migrated all Finland and Denmark channels
• Closed down TeliaPlay dependencies on poor sources from FI CableTV Broadcast manager, TT Spektra
• Transition of CMore Nordic service to TV4Play
• Integration of TeliaPlay to Norwegian market
• Transformation of content ingest flows to support aggregation across SVOD/linear/deeplinked providers
• Establishment of Metadata quality monitoring stack
• Management of content area initiatives backlog and vendors.

• Responsible for the teams that take care of Content provider integrations to SE/FI/DK markets, CMS development, SE editorial, and NPVR FI service
• Rebuilt WoW for content partner integrations, new ingest platform from monolithic architecture to server-less, one of the first teams to complete cloud journey to AWS
• New OneApp NPVR service backend with major latency improvements
• OneCMS transformation: built TV/Media Contentful CMS that is tailored for TVM domain and is brand and market agnostic (CMore, TeliaPlay, all Nordic markets)
• Closed down legacy TCAT CMS and improved Editorial experience
• Early adopters of CMS-as-code approach not only at Telia, but also among Contentful customers
• Ownership of Content delivery platform for C More
• Extended TeliaPlay with live sport events support and deep linking.

• Support local development activities in Vilnius site
• Leading Lithuania integration to common Telia Company group OTT service
• Driving establishment of Common OTT Find development value stream presence (metadata/content integrations) in Vilnius site
• Representing Lithuania in Common Products & Services organization and in architecture board of Common OTT product

Key technology projects:

• Integration of Common OTT backend (Java) with Lithuania IPTV backend (.NET), metadata, billing/OSS integration with Common OTT platform
• Ensure seamless customer experience between IPTV and OTT.

• Launch of TV over LTE big-screen service for Lithuania. It was the first deployment in the worldwide market of Arris KreaTV STBs using DASH streaming and native Widevine Modular DRM
• Integration and deployment of Arris Titanium Multitrust (former Latens) multi-DRM solution involving support for Widevine, Playready and Fairplay DRMs
• Deployment of Anevia NEA-DVR origin and NEA-CDN (in house porting as a software deployment to HP Gen10 HW instead of proprietary physical appliances)
• Integration of Telia LT Middleware client, Widevine CDM and porting of Shaka DASH player to Arris VIP5305 STBs
• Extension of DASH player to render DVB subtitles
• Development of OTT QoE stream analytics agent for Arris STBs and integration with Telia mobility OSS.

• Management of TEO TV services (IPTV & OTT) and software development team
• Aligning technology and product development roadmaps, TV software applications and IT platforms development strategy
• Product release planning, delivery and control of service conformance to internal design and maintenance standards
• Management of TV applications development team, ensuring effective growth and development of professionals to meet organization targets
• TEO TV product ownership

Key technology projects:

• Development of IPTV Middleware software stack using C#/ASP.NET/JavaScript/MS SQL technologies and integration with third party systems
• Development of real-time service quality monitoring system (real time monitoring of 250,000 online devices) and proactive failure prevention
• Integration and deployment of video streaming platform (currently serving ~100Gbit/s video)
• Integration of Widevine DRM for IPTV service
• Development of multi-DRM solution for internet video streaming service
• Developed architecture and core components such as key server, license servers integrated with Microsoft Playready and Google Widevine (C#/Python/C++/MongoDB)
• Integration with Wowza media server (Java plugins).

• Management of telco OSS/BSS systems software development
• Heading development of VoIP applications service platform & service development: Click-to-Call, Virtual call center, FAX, etc
• Management of GALA IPTV services development team
• IPTV GALA product owner

Key projects:

• Built voice over IP applications service platform based on BEA/Oracle Converged Application (J2EE) server
• Architected and leaded development of the following applications: Click-to-call (PC and telco side) and Virtual FAX, using C++/Java/MS SQL
• Universal IVR (virtual call-center)
• This is a generic platform, that could be used by endusers to create any kind of IVR service in a descriptive manner without having software development skills
• Distributed network client authorisation system: built on RADIUS, handling 0.8M customers
• Automated internet service provisioning system that is used to deploy hundreds of thousands of internet/TV services in telco network without human interaction
• Re-engineering of network service diagnostics system (responsible for automated diagnostics of customer service issues and service healing)
• The system is used by ~500 front-line customer support staff and is easy to extend with new rules instead of programmatic scripts
• Closing of legacy OSS systems and migration to new technologies (29 out of 79 systems closed down).

• Leading GALA IPTV Middleware software development team
• Managing development of scalable service IT architecture and IT service outsourcing projects
• Owner of IPTV Middleware product.

• Managing GALA IPTV Middleware development and deployment projects
• Commercial product launch.

• Technical support for ECDL IS
• IT security analyst.

• IT infrastructure support and transition from Computer networks department to University Data Center
• Headed the development and implementation of unified codified information system for national academic institutions under the LieMSIS project scope (Java/Oracle/PL SQL)
• Development and deployment of local European Resarcher Mobility portal (Java/J2EE).

• Research and consulting in areas: real time computing systems, embedded systems, smart systems, internet of things
• Past activities: Support for DSP teaching process, development and administration of academic networks and services
• Lecturing on topics of Digital Signal Processing, Real-time Systems, Distributed Systems
• Development (developed a course and lectured) of Non-destructive testing Signal Processing systems, heading SDH network optimization system development
• Participation in Connected Home research projects.