May 2015 – Nov 2024 · 9 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• 2021 - 2024
• TopSpin 2K25:
• Owned core gameplay and animation tech on a legacy game engine.
• Investigated how systems work, created documentation, and assisted designers with implementing features.
• Implemented gameplay changes and debugging functionality.
• Improved animation and gameplay content build tools and processes.
• 2020:
• Received credits in Mafia: Definitive Edition, for work done on the core engine.
• 2017 - 2021
• Worked on an unannounced game:
• Implemented various gameplay systems for player and AI.
• Wrote technical designs for large features, and broke them down into modular pieces.
• Planned tasks involving multiple disciplines (design, art, code, script) and multiple programmers.
• Worked with producers to create a streamlined & efficient schedule.
• Suggested improvements in programming practices.
• Created scripts and tools to automate development tasks.
• 2015-2017
• Shipped game: Mafia 3, on PS4, XBox One and PC.
• Shipped DLC 2 and 3 of Mafia 3.
• Features worked on:
• Intel view rendering.
• Bounty hunting: placing and removing enemy bodies in car trunks.
• Throwing knives ability for player.
• Drug FX rendering and scripting.
• Targeting visualization (decal) for projectile weapons' area of effect.
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• Render programming from May 2015 to October 2016.
• Gameplay programming from November 2016.
• Duties include:
• Implementing gameplay systems and character abilities.
• Exposing engine functionality to script for designers.
• Implementing render features in a custom next gen game engine.
• Code optimizations to improve game performance.
• Debugging graphical bugs and game crashes, and fixing them.
• Collaborating with other engineers, artists, and designers.

Aug 2014 – May 2015 · 9 mos · Greater Los Angeles Area

• For Advanced Games Project during my Master's at USC.
• Designed and implemented the combat system, along with a team of 4.
• Animations
• Physics
• Collisions
• Hit Reactions
• Handling Input
• After finishing my Master's, I stayed back at USC to continue working on this student project to polish it and wrap it up.
• Assorted tasks on the game:
• Performance optimization
• Task planning
• (Narrative, Level, Combat) design
• Cinematics
• Combat programming

May 2014 – Aug 2014 · 3 mos · Foster City

• Solve issues faced by game developers working on PS4 systems.
• Researched optimization techniques: wrote a low-level C++ memcpy function optimized for PS4 hardware.
• Built a multi-threaded, networked GUI tool to run workloads on multiple PS4s. C#, Windows Forms, C++.
• Wrote a shader reflection API

Mar 2013 – Dec 2013 · 9 mos · Greater Los Angeles Area

• Summary:
• Develop and maintain websites/ web applications used by PhD students, Faculty Advisers, School Deans and other academic administrative staff.
• Details:
• Role: create web applications used by USC administration and PhD students to manage fellowships.
• Developed a web based reporting & data entry tool in C# ASP.NET.
• Used WebAPI services to transfer data between Handsontable front­end and SQL Server database.
• Wrote stored procedures to implement business logic of various applications.

Aug 2009 – Dec 2012 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Summary:
• Develop tools for analyzing, storing, and reporting financial data.
• Details:
• Role: Enable efficient storage and access of financial data used by the bank.
• Responsibilities: Taking part in the entire SDLC process of projects and mentoring junior members of the team.
• Cube Utilities: Developed and owned a suite of C# command line tools to process, re-organize and purge financial data stored in Microsoft Analysis Services Databases.
• Archival Engine: Built a metadata driven Java application to archive various categories of data according to specific rules.
• Data Warehousing: Designed tables, wrote stored procedures in SQL, and improved data load performance.