Oct 2020 – Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Dec 2018 – Oct 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Jun 2017 – Sep 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• We are bringing the power of social gaming and deep engaging experience to robots that kids can own, nurture and battle with other kids. Utilizing IOT smart sensors and AI with Deep learning for a self driving robot and real time mesh network across multi band radios and IR for robot swarm communication and interaction.

Feb 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos

• As VP of Games and Country Manager of Zynga India, I headed Zynga's most well known games like Mafia Wars, Farmville, Farmville 2, Empires & Allies, DrawSomething etc and managed Zynga's largest social game. With annual revenues over $160M and margins over 50%, I have grown it into the most profitable studio for Zynga and drive a significant amount of top line and bottom line for Zynga Inc and created the playbook that doubled the LTV of payers.

Oct 2014 – Feb 2015 · 4 mos

May 2013 – Sep 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos

• As GM with full P&L responsibility and later COO, managed multiple key games Hidden Shadows, Mafia Wars, Bubble Safari, DrawSomething and Farmville. Led the revitalization of Farmville game and brand with a very strong focus on player community. This led to a strong lift in DAU, revenues and profitability and was the key contributor to eventually get to highest sustained gross margins and most profitable studio of significant size within Zynga. Drove the product positioning, strategy and plan to relaunch and revive the DrawSomething brand, conceptualizing a new gaming mode and a fresh new user experience and design.

Jan 2007 – Apr 2013 · 6 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• As the General Manager for the India Ops, I directly oversaw R&D, HR, IT and Finance and was a key member of the executive team at Support.com Inc. Built automated technology to find and fix issues and reduce Average Handling Time from 75m to 5m of tech support. Conceptualized the first mobile product for the company, launched in 5 months with great review from Gigaom and Lifehacker and led to the first mobile based revenue. As the Engineering head, I lead a high performance team that builds Android and iOS apps and software across technologies such as C#/.NET/WPF, jQuery, COM/ATL, C/C++, Win32.

Oct 2004 – Dec 2006 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Headed the engineering function of the Bioinformatics division including products such as Accelrys Gene, GCG, DBE. Led the Agile transformation and drove the redesign of Discovery Studio as a cross-platform & integrated suite of modeling and simulation solutions using Qt.

Feb 2003 – Oct 2004 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Built the consumer edition of MailSanctity anti spam product. Due diligence and services deal with an offshore partner in India.
• Designed and built the core multi layered spam filtering engine with bayesian scoring, signature matching, white listing and black listing etc. Plugins for Exchange client, Outlook express by reverse engineering the dbx file format etc. Designed p2p features for communication of spam info from clients to each other.

Dec 1999 – Feb 2003 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Sunnyvale, California

• Lead engineer for the on demand Virus Scanner and later development manager for the McAfee SecurityCenter for McAfee.com consumer products that shipped to 10M desktops.

Jan 1995 – Jan 1999 · 4 yrs · Chennai Area, India & in the US

• As a software engineer worked on Win32, VC++, Visual Basic and Power Builder technologies across various projects.