Jun 2023 – Jan 2026 · 2 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Led engineering for 25M+ DAU business-critical, always-on consumer platforms, owning technical direction, architecture, and organizational execution where uptime and customer trust directly impacted revenue across multiple product lines.
• Built and led a distributed engineering organization across North America, LATAM, and Europe.
• Transformed the engineering function to be best in class by developing playbooks, processes, and building leadership depth across managers, managers of managers, senior ICs, and emerging leaders.
• Designed and implemented an L1–L9 leveling framework to scale the organization and clarify growth paths for both IC and management tracks.
• Architected an in-house A/B testing framework, driving sustained revenue lift and enabling business to A/B test at scale.
• Defined cross-game KPIs / OKRs (FPS, memory, CPU budgets) to align teams with business goals and give direction to technical initiatives.
• Drove client and backend performance improvements, optimizing memory, FPS, and CPU utilization across multiple games.
• Established release, development and incident reporting process, restoring predictability across multiple live products
• Improved operational efficiency with remote config, CI/CD, and CMS solutions.
• Defined and led company-wide AI adoption strategy, embedding GenAI and agent workflows into developer tooling and data analysis.

Mar 2021 – Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Managed multiple engineering teams with 50+ engineers across USA, Canada and UK
• Managed all engineering for a business unit bringing in $250M+ revenue annually
• Planned and executed a full rewrite of the game with resource planning on iOS & Android
• Prepare and present QBR (Quarterly Business Review) to C Staff
• Rebuilt attrition impacted team with renewed focus on tech stability and efficiency
• Partnered with various disciplines to improve engineering efficiency improving various aspects like development velocity, tech architecture, tooling, etc.

Jan 2018 – Mar 2021 · 3 yrs 2 mos

• Performed strategic planning for hiring, team health, and technological investments for multiple games contributing 100M+ revenue to the company
• Built the back end team for multiple slots games and assist with hiring across the company
• Provided mentorship to the management and technical directors across the slots org
• Formulated processes for incident management and live monitoring
• Identified and executed on various projects to future proof the tech-stack
• Defined the key metrics and targets for engineering and formulated a plan to achieve them

Sep 2014 – Dec 2017 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• Led the server team for Slots org at Zynga - Hit it rich, Wizard of Oz Slots, Wonka slots and Spin it rich
• Led the migration from centos 5.2/PHP 5.2 to alinux/PHP 5.3 and packer/terraform
• Led the effort to improve user login times by 90% and spin times by 50%
• Migrated services from Zynga's data center to AWS
• Worked as Operations Lead for Zynga's biggest web game, Farmville 2
• Managed the server deployment and back end for Farmville 2
• Led cost reduction and optimization efforts with a team of engineers, working closely with the game CTO
• Led and managed the efforts of Facebook API migrations for Farmville 2 ensuring no downtime

Jul 2011 – Sep 2014 · 3 yrs 2 mos

• Took initiatives and planned projects to reduce server usage by 25%
• Re architected the backend for Farmville 2 to make it more stable
• Worked as a Feature Development Lead, managing a team of 4 developers.
• Developed and led several in game features for user engagement, and new content.
• Led a new city expansion for Mafia Wars, 8th City Expansion in Mafia Wars - Chicago.
• Led a project for enhancing in game experience of new users reducing the CS tickets.
• Worked on fixing concurrence-based issues, where multiple web requests modify shared variables.
• Trained new developers in Mafia Wars.
• Developed CityVille subscriptions
• Rewrote the back end to support multiple blobs, worked with memcache and membase, consumers.
• Led the revenue team, managing the team churning out multiple rev features.
• Fixed exploits investigated users, pushed error logs to catch misbehaving transactions
• Couple of hackathon projects I designed are in game
• Led an effort to identify and automate testing and building dev scripts for highest revenue feature from 14 days to 4 days
• Started a mentorship program in cityville.

Jul 2010 – Jul 2011 · 1 yr

• Worked as developer on Mafia Wars Game (Facebook).
• Developed content based features, having low cost for future iterations / content refreshes.
• Extended the quest system of Mafia Wars to include event based quests.
• Led and Developed real time group chat using a Java context based server, and JavaScript in a Facebook application.
• Extended the group chat system using 0MQ to include real time player updates for Mafia Wars Families (Player Groups)
• Worked on fixing performance-based issues.
• Developed several in game features to drive user engagement.

May 2009 – May 2010 · 1 yr · Los Angeles

• Served as lead developer to code the game engine for, “Stardom” a new application on the MySpace Platform.
• Worked closely with CEO, VP of Technology, and the project manager to write and execute specifications for the engine
• Led Q&A process and coordinated with additional staff to perform unit testing
• Upgraded a popular 1MM+ user MySpace application from OpenSocial 0.7 to 0.8 and ported the application to Orkut
• Used Object Oriented PHP on server side and memcache for caching frequently accessed data.
• Worked on JQuery, OpenSocial 0.7 & 0.8 Javascript API, OpenSocial PHP Client API, OAuth & MySQL database

Aug 2008 – May 2010 · 1 yr 9 mos · Los Angeles

• . Built a Peer to Peer distributed file sharing system with command line interface for storing, sending, searching and fetching files and a mini file system on each node
• . Wrote a multithreaded TCP Client Server System using Pthreads library and signal handling in C on UNIX Platform
• . Implemented Networking, Virtual Memory, Locks, Condition Variables, wrote System Calls for Nachos operating system in C, over UNIX Platform
• . Implemented A* algorithm for path finding in a grid with obstacles and used it to implement movement of 2 creatures in C, over UNIX Platform
• . Real Time Local TV Listings download from tv.yahoo.com/listings, displayed on Google Maps
• . Simulated a race among 4 mobile units to navigate with help of 2 checkpoints before going out of range or battery, used UNIX Socket API

Dec 2007 – Apr 2008 · 4 mos

• · Developed Java Library to generate reports for ERP System of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur
• · Generated PDF reports using Jasper Reports library, parsed XML report templates using SAX parser in Java
• · Implemented Serial Digital Signatures over PDF files using iText Library
• · Used iReports tool to design jrxml report templates for academic and financial reports, extracting data from PostgreSQL database