Manish Singhal

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led engineering teams for multiple successful gaming applications.
  • Improved studio efficiency by 25% through process enhancements.
  • Expert in managing high-scale gaming applications.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Gaming Industry Leader with expertise in high-scale application development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical LeadershipProject DeliverySoftware Development

Other Skills

AndroidCC#C++Cocos 2dxData StructuresEmbedded SystemsJS/TSMobile ApplicationsNode JSPeople ManagementScrumTeam ManagementUnity

About

Engineering Leader with demonstrated history of working in Gaming Industry. Successfully managed highly scaled gaming applications and strong domain knowledge of slots & casino industry.

Experience

Sciplay

Director of Engineering

Dec 2023Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Leading a slot development studio in India with complete ownership of roadmap planning, delivery, engineering & product quality
  • Improved the overall efficiency of the studio by 25% through various development process and mature program management practices
  • Played a key role in India Studio expansion, successfully setup of feature pods for highly scaled social casino application Quick Hit Slots
UnityProject DeliveryTeam ManagementTechnical Leadership

Playsimple games

Director Of Engineering

Aug 2022Dec 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Leading execution team of Anagram Franchise (~30 Dev & QA) constituting of 3 high scale games (Word Trip, Crossword Jam & Word Search) with DAU > 2M
  • Closely working with Product, Growth & Ad Monetization teams to build future technical and feature roadmap
  • Developing live ops events, strong meta concepts like Clubs, Leaderboard & standalone features to further bring scale, improve retention and monetization within these applications
  • Work with partners like Facebook & Google to understand data projection and privacy compliance and ensuring those requirements are fulfilled
  • Identifying and delivering on new business opportunities like Apple Arcade and Netflix as new hosting platforms
  • Defining & Monitoring of game health KPI's like ANR, Crash Free Rate, Load time etc. and ensuring KPI's are within acceptable range
Data StructuresMobile ApplicationsTeam ManagementTechnical LeadershipProject Delivery

Aristocrat

5 roles

Head Of Engineering | Gaming & Technology

Promoted

Jul 2021Jul 2022 · 1 yr

  • Managing large team of 50 software developers and graphics artist with complete ownership of engineering and delivery operations of 150+ slot games content for digital social casinos contributing more than $600M in organization top line
  • Successful launch and scaling of multiple social casinos apps like Cashman Casinos, Lightning Link & Heart of Vegas across iOS, Android and Web
  • Strong working knowledge of various languages (C++, C#, JS/TS, Node JS) and gaming engines
  • (Cocos 2dx, Unity)
  • Deeply involved in software architecture reviews, evaluating and defining future technology roadmaps, setting up development process and quality standards
  • Responsible for complete project life cycle involving requirement gathering, project and resource planning, execution and quality
  • Successfully lead core technology group and business critical technology transition from C++ based platform to Web based technology stack
  • Part of organizations Centre of Excellence (COE) group responsible for setting up best practices, quality framework and automation tools development
  • Product Owner for slot contents responsible for shaping up of product, overlooking at all development stages and product quality, interacting with various stakeholders, providing vision, economy and expectations for each slot through product pages
C++C#JS/TSNode JSUnityCocos 2dx+2

Sr Manager

Jan 2020Jun 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

Manager

Promoted

Jan 2017Jan 2020 · 3 yrs

Team Lead

Jul 2015Dec 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos

Senior Technical Lead

Jul 2014Jun 2015 · 11 mos

Mentor graphics

Lead Member of Technical Staff

Jul 2013Jan 2014 · 6 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Developed new features like HierRef support, UDP and DVM etc. for the HDLEngine part of DFT tool
  • using C++ language. This engine creates the sequential object data model of hardware language
  • Verilog/Vhdl and allows modification and tracing.
C++Software Development

Aristocrat

2 roles

Technical Lead

Promoted

Mar 2012Jan 2013 · 10 mos

  • Development of Slot games for different markets and jurisdictions in C and C++. Also responsible for technical mentor-ship and leading a team of 7 members.
CC++Software Development

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2010Feb 2012 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Games development

Samsung india software operations

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2007Oct 2010 · 3 yrs 3 mos

  • Worked on application development for various handheld devices. Developed input editor for Samsung first touch screen device for Japan supporting multiple languages, IPSec library integration, WIFI and various other features.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

Bachelor's degree — Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Jan 2002Jan 2007

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