May 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Building AI-powered experiences, consumer platforms, and creator monetization products across Meta's ecosystem, leading teams of 50+ engineers, PMs, TPMs, Designers, Data scientists, and other cross-functional disciplines.
• 𝗔𝗜 & 𝗔𝗜 𝗦𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆
• ▸ Led strategy for AI-powered characters and experiences reaching millions of users; delivered measurable time spent incrementality across platforms
• ▸ Designed prompts to filter, scope, and shape AI character interactions for safety and quality
• ▸ Built prototypes using MCP, Claude, VSCode, and Unity to explore AI-first product development
• ▸ Drove 10+ youth safety initiatives; led age-filtered AI interactions and child safety frameworks
• ▸ Led AI safety compliance across California, New York, and Brazil AI laws, and Child Safety Assurance Audits
• ▸ Won People's Choice Award at AI hackathon (top 5 of 400 projects)
• 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘁𝗵 & 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
• ▸ Scaled creator monetization platforms from thousands to hundreds of millions of creators and users
• ▸ Grew retention from single digits to 50%+ within months
• ▸ Pioneered GenAI Virtual Gifts, reducing multi-million dollar annual development cost to $0
• ▸ Reduced financial and engagement fraud from double digits to single digits across product lines
• 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 & 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁
• ▸ Reduced crash rates from 100% to under 10%; launched mobile platform at Connect 2025
• ▸ Scaled Mixed Reality engagement by 3,200%+ in 10 weeks
• ▸ Led cross-functional alignment across 10+ teams and built PM community events (180+ attendees)

Nov 2020 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Led the cross-promotion team at Zynga, connecting players across 30+ gaming titles through data-driven ad experiences.
• ▸ Built and scaled a cross-promotion ad network across 30+ gaming titles and 7+ studios worldwide; grew program to 3x its original revenue
• ▸ Laid the analytics foundation that proved incremental revenue impact by convincing a dozen game teams to adopt the program
• ▸ Especially important post-IDFA (Apple's 2021 privacy changes), providing an efficient alternative for user acquisition and ROAS
• ▸ Led product marketing for Farmville 3 launch via cross-promotion tools

Oct 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 6 mos

• Featured speaker and panelist on product management, AI, monetization, and career growth.
• ▸ Jul 2024 - Speaker, Dynamic Muvs
• ▸ May 2024 - Speaker, Techbrewers
• ▸ Apr 2024 - Speaker, Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business
• ▸ Jan 2024 - Judge, Just Play Game Jam
• ▸ Dec 2023 - Judge, We Create Android Game Jam
• ▸ Oct 2023 - Mentor, CHI Play
• ▸ Jul 2022 - Speaker, Stanford (Fundamentals of Product Management)
• ▸ Nov 2021 - Speaker, India GDC Careers Track
• ▸ Oct 2021 - Speaker, Product School
• ▸ Aug 2021 - Moderator, India F2P Conference Panel
• ▸ Jul 2021 - Speaker, PocketGamer Connect Digital #7
• ▸ May 2021 - Speaker, Games Institute, University of Waterloo
• ▸ May 2021 - Project Sponsor, 94-823 Measuring Social, Carnegie Mellon Heinz College
• ▸ Apr 2021 - Speaker, Product School
• ▸ Nov 2020 - Speaker, IEEE Computer Society India Symposium
• ▸ Oct 2019 - Speaker, Carnegie Mellon Entertainment Technology Center

Oct 2017 – Oct 2020 · 3 yrs · Seattle, Washington

• Product lead across multiple game teams and services at Amazon Game Studios, spanning mobile, Twitch Prime, Twitch Extensions, and Lumberyard.
• ▸ Launched Twitch Prime game offers by collaborating across engineering, UX, marketing, analytics, and biz dev
• ▸ Led Twitch Extensions strategy and P&L; launched game extensions including Dragonslair, The Collaborative, and Twitch Picks
• ▸ Ran A/B tests for 4 new game concepts; advised creation of analytics and A/B testing tools with new company-wide standards
• ▸ Credited on Crucible; advised multiple game teams (The Grand Tour, Crucible) on feature design, monetization, KPIs, and retention
• ▸ Partnered across Legal, Finance, Performance Marketing, Brand Marketing, Trademark, Application Security, Community, and PR to launch and live test game concepts
• ▸ Owned Amazon Gaming mobile app (iOS and Android); managed mobile architecture, security, and led acquisition vendor transition from Tune to Adjust.

Dec 2016 – Sep 2017 · 9 mos · Palo Alto

• Senior PM on Mobile Strike and Game of War (both top 3 grossing games worldwide, each generating $1B+), and Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire.
• ▸ Optimized first purchase conversion: balancing value delivery without reducing time to second purchase
• ▸ Used multi-armed bandit machine learning models for price point optimization and sales artwork testing
• ▸ Created targeted sales based on player age, lapsed spending, and currency balances
• ▸ Managed top-line revenue from high-spend player segments across pricing tiers
• ▸ Tested economy inflation/deflation on micro cohorts and game-wide basis
• ▸ Ran hundreds of A/B tests on player segments, including pre and post churned players

Nov 2015 – Dec 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

• PM across three mobile titles: Blood Brothers 2, Deckstorm: Duel of Guardians, and Robotic Warriors.
• ▸ Led weekly competitive multiplayer events including event and leaderboard rewards; Gacha and bundle sales increased revenue to over $1.5m
• ▸ Led Tournaments feature with detailed feature design and 6-month roadmap
• ▸ Designed cooperative challenge events with engagement features for novice, core, and expert players
• ▸ Built monetization tracking across all SKUs on weekly and monthly basis
• ▸ Selected as expert PM to train product managers at DeNA's studio in Santiago, Chile; advised on character, event, feature, and monetization design
• ▸ Designed game analytics for limited launch and worldwide launch; built a Google AppScript tool for tutorial and onboarding flows

May 2014 – Oct 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗠, 𝗣𝗼𝗴𝗼.𝗰𝗼𝗺 (Dec 2014 - Oct 2015)
• Monetization PM for Pogo.com and Pogo Mobile: $15m+ revenue, 100+ games, 8 product lines, 10,000+ items.
• ▸ Analyzed product lines to find biggest revenue generators across 100+ games; found trends that boosted revenue by $4m
• ▸ Reworked sales strategy by introducing site-wide community challenges, boosting revenue by $600k
• ▸ Optimized player LTV by segmenting casual, mid, and core players
• ▸ Designed monetization features (powerups, coin bundles) for new games with product team and 3rd party vendors
• 𝗔𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿, 𝗗𝗮𝘄𝗻𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗲 (May 2014 - Dec 2014)
• Lead analyst for Dawngate (MOBA, BioWare).
• ▸ Created KPI presentations (DAU, churn, revenue, ARPU, ARPPU) for senior BioWare management
• ▸ Developed multiple monetization models: character sales vs skins/wards/announcer packs, buy rates, skin attach rates
• ▸ Coded complex SQL queries for automated reports and dashboards
• ▸ Worked with data warehousing team to build new tables and streamline telemetry rollouts

Aug 2011 – May 2014 · 2 yrs 9 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

• Product lead for S-SDLC (Secure System Development Lifecycle) Metrics, a security analytics and compliance platform serving 80,000+ developers globally.
• ▸ Grew product adoption from 2.5% to 95% through end-to-end reporting and an extensible analytics application
• ▸ Saved $6m+ by shifting vulnerability remediation earlier in the development lifecycle, reducing compliance risk
• ▸ Defined product roadmap and managed risk and compliance for corporate security across 2012-2014
• ▸ Led 8 global product rollouts involving developers, businesses, and management
• ▸ Monitored 800+ projects tested annually; led weekly compliance calls with global business units

Sep 2010 – Aug 2011 · 11 mos · New York, New York

• Worked with Operations and Technology Risk Management (OTRM) at a leading financial firm.
• ▸ Designed and built metrics generation and reporting systems (SQL, VBA, Access)
• ▸ Generated reports for senior management to identify trends and anomalies
• ▸ Created process flows for issue management and production test metrics

Jan 2010 – Aug 2010 · 7 mos · Greater Pittsburgh Region

• Teaching Assistant for Information Assurance Policy - Prof. Soumyo Moitra
• Teaching Assistant for Professional Speaking - Prof. Chris Labash

Jan 2010 – Mar 2010 · 2 mos · Greater Pittsburgh Area & New York City, New York

• Analyzed sentiment for Reuters.com by looking at various sentiment analysis tools as well as popular social media
• Invited to present the findings of this research to the senior executives at the Thomson Reuters headquarters in New York

Sep 2009 – Dec 2009 · 3 mos · Greater Pittsburgh Region

• The project profiled P2P users on the basis of their IP addresses. Affinity Grouping / Clustering was done for Music and Movie data.
• This data can be correlated to data in the long tail and hence can be used for specific advertising purposes.

Apr 2009 – Aug 2009 · 4 mos · San Jose, California

• PTC is a multinational product development firm which delivers Product Lifecycle Management solutions to customers around the world.
• Developed tiered automated build servers for Sharepoint Project Files using Hudson and NAnt
• Designated as the main point of contact for the transition from Office 12 to Office 14
• Coded in C# to make a test framework for the PPM (Project Portfolio Management) Sharepoint sites
• Worked on the scrum framework (Agile Development)

Mar 2009 – May 2009 · 2 mos · Greater Pittsburgh Region

• Understood the market and scraped details (in Perl) like popularity, quality and date posted of pirated streaming movies
• These details were compared to those of pirated movie torrents to deduce meaningful statistical information

Aug 2007 – Mar 2008 · 7 mos · Pune, India

• Quinstreet is a technical marketing and media firm focusing on customer acquisition through proprietary Pay Per Click technology.
• Created a lightweight system monitor which graphed important system parameters and was user configurable
• It intelligently informed the user of impending problems. It was coded in Perl and interfaced using AJAX and PHP.
• This was for Quinstreet (Foster City, CA) for deployment on their production servers

Jan 2006 – Dec 2007 · 1 yr 11 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Chaired the PICT IEEE Student Branch in 2007 (Promoted from Vice chair in 2006).
• Increased membership from about 50 members to over 200 members in 2007.
• Grew the annual event, Credenz, from a footfall of 150 to that of 1000+.
• Founded and chaired IEEE Programming Club, Linux Club and Environmental Club.
• Founded and edited ‘PING’, our quarterly newsletter.
• Referenced in the March 2007 Issue of “IEEE - The Institute” in the article titled “Copy and Paste Papers Put Profs on the Offensive”, which focused on college plagiarism.