Jul 2022 – Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Led multiple cross-functional engineering teams across two high-impact products — Rush (India) and BingoChampions (US) — driving the complete product development and release lifecycle.
• Managed a 35+ member team including engineering managers, backend developers, Android engineers, game developers, and QA (manual + automation).
• Defined and executed the engineering strategy for both domestic and international markets.
• 🔸 **Gaming Studio**
• Developed and scaled casual/hyper-casual games across India and US; shipped 19 high-quality titles
• Built an in-house gaming server capable of handling ~10 million user games per day
• 🔸 **Core Engineering & International Expansion**
• Led core platform initiatives to improve margins and retain high-value users
• Spearheaded the launch of **BingoChampions** — the first app targeting the US market under the Hike umbrella
• 🔸 **Wallet & Payments Infrastructure**
• Maintained and enhanced robust payment systems including user wallets, payment gateways, and support for credit/debit transactions

Apr 2018 – Jul 2022 · 4 yrs 3 mos

• Led Gaming studio for Rush by hike. Launched multiple (pilot) apps as a part of the monetization strategy.
• ❖ Rush by Hike (Gaming Studio)
• Build and scaled cross-functional Gaming team including unity devs, backend devs, QA
• Partnered with third-party studios to accelerate game development.
• ❖ Legends of Ludo (https://legendsofludo.xyz/)
• Created a team from scratch for a new crypto-native application (targeting both crypto and
• casual gaming users)
• Build on-chain strategy and developed solutions to optimize ‘gas fees’ and overall
• infrastructure security.
• Figured out the on-chain strategy (blockchain, smart contracts, security)
• Created multiple smart contracts like ERC-20, ERC-721, ERC-1155, Custodial Wallet
• ❖ Vibe by Hike: A new kind of an Avatar Social World, a magical and safe place to hang out online
• Led 30+ member team to build the app from scratch as a pilot project after sunsetting Hike
• Messenger
• Launched audio and text-based experiences for users to spend time and interact with each
• other
• Clocked almost 50k dau in six just months, creating 250k new connections per month.
• ❖ Hike Sticker Chat: launched a new messaging app focusing on close friends network
• Hikeland: Virtual social hangout place inside Hike messenger
• Led a 30-member team to launch two initiatives “Home” and “BigScreen”
• Successfully piloted Hike’s first monetization program “Hikestar” inside Hikeland
• Integrated casual gaming within Hikeland
• Collaborated with a third-party gaming studio to build games.
• Built an in-house team of game developers
• Conceptualized and launched Cloud storage for storing conversations in a secured
• manner on Hike cloud.
• Launched Web client support to access all conversations from the desktop.

Jan 2017 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Managed Infrastructure Teams at Hike. Focused on providing a reliable infrastructure having under 5 millisecond latency and 4 9’s of availability for Hike Messenger having 100+ million user base, delivering over billion messages a day.

Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 · 2 yrs

• Lead Messaging backend team at Hike Messenger.
• > Architected and delivered various new features around privacy and user networks.
• > Lead the team in migrating from one cloud provider to another with ‘zero’ downtime.

Nov 2012 – Jan 2015 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Initial Member of Core Team at Hike Messenger.
• > Responsible for reliability and scalability of Messaging infrastructure. Saw growth curve from 1000’s of users to millions of users.
• > Broke down monolith architecture to service oriented architecture eradicating single point of failures.

Nov 2011 – Nov 2012 · 1 yr · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Member of Core Development team. Responsible in making e-com site Ubantouch.com and order full filment console in Node.js.
• Lead the team in migrating Old system (developed in Magento framework) to new platform (in Node.js)
• I have been involved in developing critical flows like Order checkout, Payment Gateway integration etc.
• Mentoring a team of three in all processes.

Mar 2011 – Nov 2011 · 8 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Member of Core Development team of SmsGupshup ( having more than 45 million users and generate more than 50 million of daily traffic.)
• Worked on a new product ‘Reply-All Chat’ to launch internationally in various countries.

Mar 2010 – Mar 2011 · 1 yr · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Member of Core Development team of SmsGupshup.
• Worked on developing various methods/techniques for monetization of the product.
• Used various frameworks like Rabbit MQ and Gearman for logging and eventing purpose.

Aug 2008 – Mar 2010 · 1 yr 7 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Member of development team of SMSGupShup http://www.smsgupshup.com/ !!!

May 2007 – Jul 2007 · 2 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• The internship entailed developing a client side RTP based video receiver over internet for viewing live videos from server.