Rahul Bhansali

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 15 years of experience in technology.
Led multiple game transitions at Zynga.
Expert in backend development and team management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Engineer with extensive experience in Gaming and API Development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Backend DevelopmentGame DevelopmentData Analysis

Other Skills

AJAXAPI DevelopmentAWSApacheCC++Core JavaCrash FixingDatabase DesignDatabasesEclipseElasticsearchHTMLJSPJava

About

I have a total of 15+ years of experience in Technology. I have experience with startups and established company. Over the last 15 years, I have worked in 4 Industry. - Social Gaming (10+ Years & counting) - Food Tech, Delivery (1 Year) - Ad Network (2 Year) - Home Automation, Energy & Water Monitoring (ZigBee Protocol, Ethernut OS) (2 Year)

Experience

Zynga

6 roles

Senior Engineering Manager 2

Apr 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Engineering Manager 1

Promoted

Mar 2022 – Mar 2024 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Engineering Manager 2

Mar 2021 – Feb 2022 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Engineering Manager 1

Mar 2020 – Feb 2021 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Principal Software Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2018 – Feb 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

For now, leading the Technology team for 2 business unit (BlackDiamondCasino & Wonka Slots).
I am passionate about backend technology.
BlackDiamondCasino
✓Did transition of BlakDiamondCasino Slots from Austin Studio to StudioI with just 2 member team including me
✓Worked 2 weeks from Austin Studio for transition
✓Taken care of full backend for BlackDiamondCasino. Fully hosted on AWS
Android - https://goo.gl/QJaxKt
iOS - https://goo.gl/upxnSr
Wonka Slots
✓Did transition of Wonka Slots from Austin Studio to StudioI with 7 member team
✓Worked for a month from Austin Studio for transition
✓Involved in every feature goes inside the game
Android - https://goo.gl/cCE16a
iOS - https://goo.gl/7KMCBb

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2015 – Feb 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Started in Zynga with SpeedGuessSomething. It was a first game developed in StudioI and released worldwide. Moved to DrawSomething.
✓Replaced HA-Proxy by Nginx
✓Replaced Membase by Couchabse. Integrated Couchbase smart client
✓Successfully completed migration of WebServer from RightScale to AWS
✓Created a Ruby Gem
iOS - https://goo.gl/jkjE6P
Android - https://goo.gl/p1bfp7
Looney Tunes Dash!
✓Successfully completed transition of Looney Tunes Dash! to Studio I (Remotely).
✓Crash fix for Android & iOS. This has reduced crash rate from 5.5% to around 3.5% in Android.
Dawn Of Titans
✓Travelled to Natural Motion Studio, London. Worked for a month from London Studio.
✓Completed transition of Event & Gacha Event (Cadence) from Natural Motion to Studio I.
✓Worked on bug fix, for client of DoT
Zindagi Games
✓Worked from Camarillo, California Studio for 1 and half month.
✓Transition of Match-3 games (Crazy Cake Swap, Crazy Kitchen & Yummy Gummy) from Zindagi Studio to Studio I. I was the Lead from Technology side during the transition.
✓Worked with Zindagi team for the creation of Automated build process.
✓Coordinated & helped in KT with other team members during transition as half of the Tech. team(Studio I) was in different time zone.
✓Worked on Daily Challenge feature in CCS which increased the ARPDau by 20%.
✓Added a Multi-Dex support for Match-3 Games.
✓Did 5 Event Optimization for Match-3 games which increased revenue by $10K every week.
✓Worked on Incentivized Invite (Native Share) feature. This will help in increase install and increase retention.
✓Worked on Churn-fixes feature. This was around tuning the Match-3 core engine. This helps in increase retention.
✓Released "Challenge/Quest System" feature in CK which has increase in ARPDAU by 20%
✓Implemented TestFlight Auto-Upload for CK & CCS.
Android (CCS) - https://goo.gl/QWUKna
Android (CK) - https://goo.gl/2Wr7Za
iOS (CCS) - https://goo.gl/6d8Uiy
iOS (CK) - https://goo.gl/Y4gdEC

Dazo

2 roles

Lead Engineer (Founding Team)

Mar 2015 – Nov 2015 · 8 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Dazo - https://techcrunch.com/2015/05/14/dazo/
Joined Dazo in its early stage, played a keen role in designing and building a product from scratch.
Developed a product using LAMP Stack. Handling complete API(for Delivery & Consumer App), Server, Website and Internal software for Dispatching, Reporting & Analytics.
Setuped EC2 server, RDS(MySQL), S3 bucket integrated with product & SVN version control. Setuped a system for database backup. Taking care of code release on production server.
Also worked on accounting of partner & customer.
Handling API & Server team. Responsible for hiring intern & full time developers.

Technical Consultant

Jan 2015 – Mar 2015 · 2 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Helped the team to move MVP product (backend as parse) to Scalable product (backend as LAMP Stack) which can handle lot more request. With help of 1 intern developed the product and delivered in less than 2 month.
Deliverables include Database Design, API Development, Integration of API with Android app, integration with internal tools for Order management.

LAMP StackAPI DevelopmentServer ManagementBackend Development

Airpush, inc.

2 roles

Lead Engineer

Dec 2014 – Mar 2015 · 3 mos

Database DesignAPI DevelopmentBackend Development

Software Engineer

Apr 2013 – Nov 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos

Setuped Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana from scratch. Handling millions of row data. This product is used to analyze & move traffic under right category like manufacture, phonemodel, networkoperator, city, state. Also this is used to analyze fraud using IP, IMEI, AppId.
Worked on Salesforce bulk API. Setuped completely from the scratch. Pushed complete Publisher & Advertiser data to Salesforce from different data source on regular interval. This is used by top management for lead generation, reporting & analytics.
Worked with advertiser & publisher to setup conversion integration, resolving discrepancy, setting up high burning campaigns.
Developed tools using LAMP stack -
used by management team for revenue analysis
used by NOC monitor team for server replication
used by account manager for campaign, app & publisher analysis
used by support team for campaign & App traffic analysis, for discrepancy, for fraud
Analyzing traffic to find the fraud, revenue low/high, find & resolve bugs.

Be human (gidangel)

Co-Founder & Director

Jun 2013 – Apr 2014 · 10 mos

Worked on tourism product where we are trying to connect professional guide & tourist. Product main moto was to remove the intermediator b/w guide & tourist. Guide can create a trip with specified date, price & no. of tourist and tourist can sign up for trip. Its a global product.
Guide will be verified by Gidangel team for the safety of tourist. Guide & tourist can share the trip experience using media(Images, video), comment, like and rate the guide & tourist. This will be a more of social web for toursit and guide.
We had a registered company under the name BE HUMAN, INC registered in New York(FB Page Link - https://www.facebook.com/behumanforequality).

LogstashElasticsearchKibanaSalesforce APIData Analysis