May 2023 – Sep 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos

Aug 2019 – Sep 2024 · 5 yrs 1 mo · Chennai Area, India

• Fairside Stories - the world's first game based program for kids to develop life skills that matter

Jun 2017 – Jul 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Creative Director on DIsney Byjus Early Learn - the world's most comprehensive interactive learning app for K3.

Mar 2014 – Jun 2017 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Leading creative strategy and game design for mobile games, with focus on the India market.

Mar 2011 – Feb 2014 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Lead designer on Hidden Shadows, Zynga’s first ever new IP launched completely from India. The game rose to a 1 million DAU, becoming the second largest Hidden Objects game on Facebook, and the fastest growing game on Facebook.
• Lead designer on Mafia Wars, one of the most famous games of all time, and one of the longest-lasting and profitable games in the history of social gaming.
• Lead designer on Hidden Chronicles, the no.1 Hidden Objects game on Facebook in 2012. Designed and launched ‘Search for The Seven Sons’ – a major expansion for the game with an all-new storyline and gameplay features. The feature was a major success – driving all core metrics beyond expectations.
• Lead designer on Yoville, one of Zynga’s longest-lived and most successful games. Designed a number of features that helped make Yoville one of Zynga’s best performing games quarter after quarter.
• Led the design team across multiple games at the studio, playing role of manager and mentor to designers and providing creative direction.

Feb 2007 – Mar 2011 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Led a team that delivered a complete ancillary content suite (mobile games, comics, graphic novel, web content, marketing collateral) for the film 'Once Upon A Warrior / Anaganaga O Dheerudu) for the Walt Disney Company.
• Wrote a Children’s graphic novel called ‘Adventures of Yoddha’ which was published by the Walt Disney Company.
• Delivered a complete digital content suite for the Kolkata Knight Riders cricket team for two
• seasons of the Indian Premier League.
• Delivered a suite of humorous and satirical content (cartoons, comics, animated clips, blog posts) for Cricinfo's 'Page 2' section for the Indian Premier League.
• Designed a complete role-playing strategy game based on collectible trading cards.
• Designed a cricket card game, with a collectible 'build-your-deck' model for the Kolkata Knight Riders cricket team.

Jan 1996 – Jan 2012 · 16 yrs · India

• One of India’s most widely published games columnists. Have written hundreds of columns in publications like Forbes Life India, Indian Express, India Today, Tehelka and the Hindu.
• One of India’s most widely read English language satire columnists. Have written satire pieces for ESPN-Cricinfo, Yahoo and Forbes Life India.
• My blog Son of Bosey remains a cult favourite. It was the first ‘fake-news’ blog in India. Rahul Roushan of Faking News has acknowledged it as an early influence.
• Have written several children’s stories published by Scholastic.
• Written and drawn a sci-fi graphic novel called ‘Learning to Floo’, which is currently being serialized on the web site of the Centre for Internet and Society.

Jan 1994 – Jan 2011 · 17 yrs · Greater Chennai Area

• Created a number of educational games, interactive installations and displays for a natural history exhibit in the Western Ghats, for the Nature Conservation Foundation. The aim was to help visitors quickly grasp key concepts related to wildlife and biodiversity conservation, in a fun and engaging way.
• Designed and programmed thecinema.in , the online ticket booking interface for Sathyam Cinemas, Chennai's leading multiplex. The site was a pioneering design, especially in terms of dramatically reducing end-to-end transaction time, and won several awards and citations for excellence in e-commerce design.
• Was the head consultant responsible for setting up BLUR, India’s largest PC and console videogame zone in Sathyam Cinemas, Chennai. I conceptualized, planned and executed the project. It remains Chennai’s no.1 destination for videogames.
• Was one of the first designers in India to adapt to digital design, web and multimedia. We were designing web sites in 1998 - in the early 'wild west' days of digital design in India.