Apr 2017 – Sep 2021 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Austin, Texas Area

• I started as a technology lead at Tonk Tonk in 2017 building animation tools and pipeline. In 2019 I became their CTO and grew a fully remote team of 30 people distributed all across the world. We built an amazing mobile multiplayer fighting game called uFighter and were ultimately acquired by a real-money gaming startup called Joyride.

Jan 2016 – Nov 2016 · 10 mos · Gurgaon and Ahmedabad, India

• We are trying out bold and crazy ideas where education and technology meet. Developing software and hardware solutions for the classroom and beyond. I am interested in student engagement above all else. I intend to use a bag full of tricks acquired during 10+ years in the entertainment industry to make the learning journey of a child full of excitement and wonder.

Apr 2014 – Nov 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• At Lumos Labs I was a Principal Game Developer working on brain training games. I prototyped over 15 different games and brought 3 games to market. My games are amongst the most popular in Lumosity's game library. I worked remotely for Lumos after deciding to relocate to India for family reasons.

Apr 2012 – Present · 13 yrs 11 mos · Ahmedabad, India

• I started Masala Games in 2012 to publish my own games (like Word Mess). Masala Games takes on challenging and interesting contract work from games studios around the world. Bring me your hard problems!

Jun 2009 – Mar 2014 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Emeryville, California

• I worked on 6 films out of which Toy Story 3, Brave and Inside Out won the Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Animated Film. I worked in the Characters department on the film Monsters University doing material, paint and fur development. On the technology side, I spent two years leading the development of Pixar's shading tools which are used by over 50 artists on all Pixar films.

Jun 2005 – Jun 2009 · 4 yrs

• I was hired straight out of grad school by legendary game designer Will Wright to work on his ambitious game Spore. I joined at the prototyping stage in a team of 15 people and stayed on for 4 years till the game was completed. I worked on all the core graphics systems for the game. I gained tremendous development experience by working with some phenomenal senior engineers on this team. Working with Will Wright was immensely inspiring and imbued me with a lot of lifelong lessons.After shipping Spore, I conceptualized and led a project called Spore API. The API gave developers around the world access to Spore's unique player creativity database.

Jan 2005 – May 2005 · 4 mos · Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh

• An exploration-by-implementation of uncharted game design space. We employ rapid prototyping tricks to come up with new game design ideas. We find that constraints are a great fuel for creativity and use time and theme based constraints to generate interesting designs. Since opening up to the public in 2005, the project has birthed many great games such as World of Goo, Canabalt, Crayon Physics etc. Every month we release a new theme on www.experimentalgameplay.com for developers at large to flex their prototyping muscles.