Aarav Sharma

Streaming Platforms Engineer, Live Subtitles — based in Bengaluru

Aarav owns the integration layer between Live Subtitles and the streaming services people actually watch every day: Netflix, YouTube, Disney+, Prime Video, and the long tail of regional OTT platforms. He is the person who decides whether a subtitle workflow that works in a lab will survive contact with DRM, ad insertion, and a household's 4K bandwidth cap.

Background

Aarav graduated with a degree in electronics and communication engineering from IIIT Bangalore. He spent four years at a major Indian OTT platform working on subtitle delivery for low-bandwidth Tier-2 markets, then two years on a regional dubbing-and-captioning pipeline. He has shipped subtitle code that runs against the actual Netflix and YouTube player surfaces — not just against research clips — and is unusually familiar with what breaks at scale.

What Aarav writes about

Practical Netflix and YouTube dual-subtitle workflows that survive real account sharing and household profiles.
Movie-based language learning playlists for English learners, with concrete reasons each title is on the list.
Honest alternatives to Language Reactor, including which features each tool actually delivers.
Cultural reading of films — how to use dual subtitles to learn idioms and mentality, not just vocabulary.

Editorial standards

Aarav benchmarks every recommended workflow on at least two devices (a mid-range Windows laptop and a 4K monitor setup) before publishing. If a tool only works on a flagship machine, he says so. If a competing tool does the job better for a specific use case, he names it.