Jan 2024 – May 2024 · 4 mos

• Led Live Ops for Sweepstakes Poker and development of Gala Chain Poker with unique tokenomics

Mar 2023 – Jan 2024 · 10 mos

• 1. Increased monthly revenue baseline by 30% by building a scientific process for designing NFTs for sale; involved building a mathematical model for a complex simulation game, game design, constant customer feedback, and weekly detailed analyses
• 2. Conducted weekly Numbers and Roadmap reviews for multiple games involving detailed analyses of metrics and data-driven insights for Roadmap

Jul 2021 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Esk is a platform where users can ask questions to an expert via text for the price of a coffee
• Ideated, designed, onboarded coaches, and built the whole platform from the ground up.
• Interviewed over 100 users for user research and feedback

May 2018 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Indian Mobile Gaming Startup with over 100M Downloads and $20M in Revenue
• Led Product, Engineering and Production for a Cross-functional team of 5 people dealing with all fraudulent activities including credit-card fraud and collusion, contributing over 20% of revenue
• Creatively solved payment fraud by fundamentally removing any ROI; reduced fraud from $2000/day to less than $100/day, leading to 10% increase in non-fraud revenue
• Generated actionable insights on black-market for in-game currency by regularly interviewing customers, resellers and black-market dealers; used insights to build technical and CS features, increasing revenue by 5%
• Analyzed unstructured behavioral patterns of black-market users and built approximate models to quantify their fraudulent behavior and impact; used models to generate reports and real-time dashboards

Sep 2017 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Drove Roadmap Planning, Product Partnership, Communication, Live ops, and On-call for 4M+ DAU game
• Interviewed dozens of candidates to grow team from 5 to 13 and directly managed 4 engineers
• Hired, managed, and mentored a team of 3 contract engineers to conduct experiments on a newly acquired game Jalebi, meeting all deadlines

Sep 2017 – Sep 2018 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Scaled tech and mentored engineers to support growth from 1M to 4M+ DAU over two years
• Drove Roadmap Planning, Product Partnership, Communication, Live ops, and On-call by acting as Engineering Manager; Grew team from 5 to 13 and directly managed 4 engineers
• Introduced Typescript reducing server bugs reaching QA by 40% and production by 15%
• Pioneered Realtime Dynamic Monitoring reducing game downtime during on-call by 30%
• Pioneered and implemented scrum on slack for better time management and productivity
• Developed a 1v1 Machine Learning bot for Teenpatti from scratch using the CFR+ algorithm by learning through research papers

Sep 2014 – Sep 2016 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

• Database Administrator​ - Business owner for data infrastructure.
• Reduced execution time for major queries by 50% and infra cost by 20%.
• Stats Infrastructure: Built distributed data processing pipeline that handled over 20 Billion Events / Day with less than 5-minute latency to the warehouse(Redshift).
• Built Mobile Games - Alia Bhatt, Smash Cricket and Bingo Club using Cocos2d-x

Mar 2014 – Aug 2014 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Jul 2013 – Feb 2014 · 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India