Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs

• 1. Led frontend(FE) team to deliver multiple time-critical features across RummyCircle(RC), My11Circle(MEC), PokerCircle maintaining the highest quality and the best user experience.
• 2. Actively led hiring and retention initiatives and scaled the RummyCircle FE JS team from 4 to 13 engineers with less than 10% attrition.
• 3. Orchestrated React Native migration of flagship RummyCircle app, ensuring feature parity with Unity and achieving 99.85% crash-free rate.
• 4. Led the new PokerCircle FE team to deliver important features. Created architecture, contracts and plan for Poker Gametable in React Native.
• 5. Innovated solution for performance testing automation using Firebase custom traces to identify performance bottlenecks during development phase for all products.
• 6. Initiated & drove efforts to create a centralized analytics tracking sheet for tracking events, increasing accuracy of analytics implementations across teams.
• 7. Stepped in to execute critical compliance requirements by Tamilnadu across all products(RC, MEC, PokerCircle & Wowzy) under extremely tight timeline with precision and zero issues.
• 8. Spearheaded in-house AI chatbot project, leading discussions for system design, defining architecture, and ensuring delivery within scope/timelines.
• 9. Drove adoption & integration of micro frontend architecture across new products, enabling independent deployments, reducing build complexity, and improving developer velocity.
• 10. Strengthened team capability by removing single-developer dependencies and actively mentoring junior engineers.
• 11. Adopted AI-assisted development tools like Cursor, GitHub Copilot to optimize productivity and improve code quality.

Apr 2022 – Mar 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos

• 1. Led a team of 4 FE engineers for RummyCircle and worked as Engineering Captain with engineers across products to deliver multiple complex, time-critical projects.
• 2. Led the complicated GST compliance initiative across all products(RC, MEC, PokerCircle) and was able to achieve zero post production issues across 10 different channels.
• 3. Delivered multiple “Add Cash” enhancements, boosting user engagement and increasing ARPU.
• 4. Transitioned Android app distribution to CDNs, reducing infrastructure costs, improved caching and resulting in 5% absolute increase in download completion.
• 5. Led successful Play Store migration, implementing critical changes across RC & MEC products under strict timelines.
• 6. Spearheaded the KYC journey revamp to get a significant impact of Lead To Paid(LTP) metric for PlayStore App (+15% for MEC & +40% RC).
• 7. Championed unit testing culture, increasing coverage by 20% across legacy components, enforcing 80% code coverage for new development and mentoring peers on modular, testable code design.
• 8. Directed RummyCircle website migration from server rendered pages to single page application(SPA) with micro frontend architecture.
• 9. Initiated observability improvements including precise dashboards, documentation, and alert handling for improved Mean Time To Recovery(MTTR).

Apr 2018 – Mar 2024 · 5 yrs 11 mos

• 1. Acted as Engineering Captain for multiple large-scale projects, leading multi-team execution with precise planning and stakeholder alignment.
• 2. Engineered micro frontend architecture. Created multiple micro frontend applications and integrated across products.
• 3. Owned end-to-end development of “Add Cash” UI revamp, ensuring scalability across multiple channels and payment providers.
• 4. Delivered new features & enhancements in promo code & payment integration systems (e.g. third party promocode, Juspay integration) that increased flexibility for marketing campaigns.
• 5. Delivered complex hyper-personalisation project in game recommendation resulting in 3% increase in ARPU.
• 6. Improved system reliability by debugging and fixing high-priority production issues and production outages across frontend and proxy layers.
• 7. Mentored new team members, established coding standards, and improved onboarding efficiency.

Dec 2016 – Apr 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Responsibilities:
• 1. Develop for cross platform, cross-browser game.
• 2. Analyse product requirement, create timelines and development plan for new features and change requests.
• 3. Implement new features in a unified way to be able to use same code across all platforms.
• 4. Root cause analysis and fixing of production issues.
• Technologies Used:
• Languages/Frameworks: JavaScript(ES6), Canvas, Cocos2d-JS, Webpack, Preact, JSON, HTML5, CSS3, JSON
• Revision Controls: GIT