Jul 2014 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Stuph (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stuph-inc)
• As part of the founding team of Stuph, shipped Trullo, a community where you can review, discover and share movies, books and products.
• Worked solely from scratch on shipping a highly polished, fully featured iOS version of the app.
• Worked on backend in Clojure, including designing API endpoints, data logic, web scraping, metrics analysis tools, entity search, email scanning to find digital content.
• Built an optimized pipeline for parsing email content to automatically figure out entities the user has already consumed.
• Wrote multiple scrapers to parse entities (movies, books, products) from popular websites.
• Incorporated Facebook and Twitter APIs to build social features like sharing posts, finding friends, and login via facebook.
• Helped build an initial web prototype of the app in ClojureScript and React
• As part of the founding team, worked extensively on figuring out the product, and strategies for growth and marketing.

Aug 2012 – Aug 2014 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• War Dragons (http://wardragons.com/)
• As the first developer on the game, worked closely with the founder of the game to conceptualize, prototype, iterate and release Pocket Gem's flagship game, which is top 50 grossing apps worldwide.
• Worked closely with product managers and designers initially to make prototypes to figure out the core mechanics of the game.
• Used Cocos3d (an open source 3D graphics platform) to build Pocket Gems’ first ever 3D game War Dragons, which now is the default engine for all future Pocket Gems’ games.
• Architected and laid the foundation for most of the core features of the game, including the logic for the dragon battle in the game.
• Built a realtime multiplayer component designed especially for weak, intermittent mobile connections.
• Shipped multiple iterations of the game with a huge emphasis on metrics. Worked closely with product managers to analyze the metrics and figure out future direction of the product.
• Worked very closely with Game Designers, Artists and QA to establish processes which were unique for this undertaking..
• Focused highly on performance, memory and optimized it heavily for low end devices.
• Starting out as the first developer, finally led a team of about 15 developers to ship the game.
• Tap Paradise Cove
• Worked on top grossing game Tap Paradise Cove. Implemented end to end client facing features. One of the biggest features I implemented was to restart the game with a completely different set of parameters in the same session without having to close or kill the app. Involved extensive memory management as this was done pre-ARC.

Mar 2009 – Aug 2012 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Office Platform and Onenote Metro
• Worked in the Microsoft Office Division with a team which was driven towards having Office presence on Windows 8.
• Developed Onenote Metro for the new form factor on Windows 8. We also acted as a shared team and platform for existing Office apps to do the same.
• Provided support for touch keyboard and inking support for Onenote and other office apps.
• Worked extensively on converting the desktop version to work within the constraints of the new security app based model for Windows 8.
• Stealth Incubator Project
• Worked with an incubation team to make apps for intelligent task input and management for consumers. Involved working with the Microsoft Research Department to incorporate intelligent and new research in a practical way. Implemented prototypes for inputting tasks using speech recognition and Natural Language Processing to extract relevant information.
• Awarded a patent for my work on “Population of lists and tasks from Captured Voice and Audio Content”
• Microsoft Office 2010 and Access 2010
• Worked with Microsoft Office Access to ship Access 2010 and Office 2010.
• Created server macros which could be executed on server instead of client using the same logic.
• Optimized performance for the the Macros Parser and Execution Engine. Also, expanded the syntactical language for macros adding nested conditions blocks and else-if.
• Was the sole owner for shipping the Access Developer Extensions Package for Office 2010, which is the third most downloaded Microsoft Office extension products.
• Recipient of a “Microsoft Gold Star Award” for exceptional performance.

Jun 2007 – Aug 2007 · 2 mos

• Worked with the Dynamic Landing Page Optimization team to customize the landing page from Amazon sponsored links.
• Implemented the King Of the Hill Algorithm to figure out the best landing page to be shown