Apr 2021 – Jun 2024 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Did not go anywhere, but learnt a lot about building products from scratch, understanding market dynamics, running a bootstrapped business
• Launched a hit board game title "Forest Run" with 15K+ copies sold, 1.5Cr in revenue
• Scaled packaging division; led marketing and content strategy, designed sales funnel achieving order book of 5L/month
• Check us out at www.nikolabrands.com

Jan 2020 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Drove multiple biotech application projects with large datasets up to 100s of terabytes of data - RNA Explorer, Proteomics, Deep Model Builder
• Directed the building of a horizontally scalable central data pipeline for the molecular suite of apps to ingest/process 100s of gigabytes of data daily
• Stakeholder management with experts from cross cutting domains - bioscientists, data scientists, UX designers, Doctors, CPO to build business critical applications

Aug 2017 – Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Play java, REST architecture, Micro-services, Obj-C/Swift
• Built the team for Content Org, managed the team on full-stack effort to build interactive content formats on Joyride - live video app
• Delivery owner for new content formats on live video, backend stability, performance benchmarking, full-stack feature delivery and live-ops
• Responsibilities include project planning, partnering with the product team, understanding and solving business problems, evaluation of project complexity, team resource management, execution, delivery and live-ops
• Lead the team on Content format modules on the backend and mobile frontend with progressively diminishing code changes that facilitate faster development of new formats
• Designed and led the delivery of the interactive part of backend for live shows into interoperable microservices
• Ideated and defined the requirements for the improved load test framework using automated machine spawning that generates instant load bursts to benchmark the maximum concurrent requests

Jul 2015 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Play java framework, REST architecture, Objective C, Multi services
• Built multi-service architecture for back-end infra for bot platform that allows users to read stories in an interactive way. Co-implemented core modules/abstractions to facilitate faster internal api development
• Implemented ranking algorithm working with analytics team for stories page to rank different type of stories based on user engagement which improved the user engagement by further upto 30%
• Built templated chatbots for interactive stories on facebook and kik messenger platforms.
• Worked as a Tech lead on Sequel (iOS app) for both backend and frontend which allows users to read stories in an interactive way
• Managed multiple small sub-teams

Sep 2012 – Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• PHP(Kohana), REST architecture, Core Java, Android SDK, Libgdx
• Delivery Owner and Lead for the team that delivered one of the most successful titles for the Company and on Google play – Shipwrecked (10M+ downloads) and Skull Island (Jan’15 - Jun ‘15)
• Led the complete launch cycle of Shipwrecked on play store for both backend and frontend development. Led the design phases of product live-ops features for both backend and frontend
• Owner for performance metrics (both backend, frontend)/ User experience metrics. App crash rates were kept below 1%
• Response time optimization through indexing, sharding, and caching strategies
• Worked on memory optimization strategies like object pooling/re-using, on-demand loading that improved average fps by 20%
• Worked on optimising average load times of first and subsequent launches by up-to 30% of the app by staging out loading into different phases and on-demand loading of assets
• Re-designed existing CMS system to support large data sets by paging out updates
• Designed re-skin framework to spin off games from parent games
• Part of performance appraisal for the team for 2 cycles
• Point of contact for product/art/analytics team for feature delivery/improvements

Nov 2011 – Sep 2012 · 10 mos

• PHP(Kohana), Core Java, Android SDK, libgdx
• Core engineer for the game – Brightwood Adventures which went on to become a top-earning game for the company between 2011-2012
• Built download manager module, notification service module, cross-promotion module, UI common module and co-built CDN module which would be used across all Kiwi games

Aug 2009 – Oct 2011 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Worked as a Kernel Programmer for High Availability team