Shimul Bhowmik

Director of Engineering

Hayward, California, United States13 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led monetization strategy driving 75% of Roblox's revenue.
Increased annual revenue by 150% at Pocket Gems.
Improved data processing latency from hours to minutes.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Gaming and Social Networking expert with strong engineering leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

MonetizationProduct DevelopmentEngineering ManagementBusiness StrategyData EngineeringProject Management

Other Skills

RecruitingPeople ManagementProject PlanningStrategic VisionStrategic PartnershipsHiringDirector levelDistributed SystemsTeam LeadershipCareer DevelopmentManagementSystem DesignGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Node.jsData Structures

About

I am an engineering leader with 15+ years of experience leading product and platform orgs with deep expertise in live-ops and creator monetization. Currently responsible for 75% of revenue for Roblox. If you would like to know more about me, including my current role, do reach out to me.

Experience

13 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

5 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

Roblox

Engineering Manager, Developer Monetization

Jun 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos · San Mateo, California, United States · On-site

Leading Creator Monetization for Roblox -- responsible for 75% of Roblox economy. Over the last few years, we drove xx% incremental revenue by innovating via experimentation and personalization.
Bootstrapped multiple products that drove xxxM$ incremental revenue and created a world-class platform to support record-breaking CCU as Roblox continues to grow at unprecedented scale.
https://corp.roblox.com/newsroom/2025/04/roblox-launches-regional-pricing-for-in-experience-items
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/06/roblox-introduces-new-earning-opportunities-for-creators-teases-generative-ai-project/

RecruitingPeople ManagementProduct DevelopmentBusiness StrategyProject PlanningMonetization+1

Pocket gems

4 roles

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2020 – Jun 2023 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Led the Empire Gaming Studio and Backend Platform team, with a team size of 30+ engineers across four teams.
Head of engineering, Empire Studio:
Increased annual revenue by 150% ($xxxM+).
Reduced time to market for new content by 80%.
Led partner negotiations.
Closed a major financing deal for the studio.
Backend Platform:
Bootstrapped and grew the platform org to redesign our core infrastructure.
The platform org's key areas of responsibility were App startup, User Authentication, Game data storage, Content Delivery, A/B testing, Deployment, Telemetry, and Customer support tools.

Strategic PartnershipsStrategic VisionHiringPeople ManagementBusiness StrategyProduct Development+2

Sr Engineering Manager, Data Engineering

Promoted

Aug 2017 – Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 7 mos

I led the data engineering team for Pocket Gems.
Improved data ingestion latency. Reduced the latency from 4 hrs to 5 mins.
Build a new data analytics pipeline to support R&D teams and improve our time to market. Reduced the integration time from weeks to an hour.
Migrated PetaBytes of data from Redshift to BigQuery. Improved performances by 300%.
Developed a new BI system and migrated the entire company to a common workflow.
Worked with recruiting to build out the engineering blog and organized recruiting events.

Distributed SystemsHiringProject ManagementRecruitingPeople ManagementBusiness Strategy+4

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2015 – Aug 2017 · 2 yrs 7 mos

I bootstrapped the live-operations (full stack) engineering for War Dragons and grew it to 8 engineers.
Improved product revenue by 300% (100M+).
Created SLO for the product and Improved system uptime from 97% to 99.5%.
Hired and mentored engineers and TL.

HiringProject ManagementEngineering ManagementPeople ManagementCareer DevelopmentProduct Development

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2013 – Jan 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos

Built the player game-state layer for War Dragons. Created cheat detection heuristics. Developed several core gameplay features. Mentored four engineers.

Utoo?

Co-Founder

Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 · 1 yr

Utoo? is a social app that shows users the coolest events in their area and introduces people with similar interests (e.g., #yoga #foodie #GoT #music) who want to go to them.
As the technical co-founder, I worked on the product roadmap and managed the engineering and UI/UX teams.

Business StrategyProduct DevelopmentManagement

Belzabar software design india private limited

Software Engineer (Computer Scientist)

Jun 2012 – Sep 2013 · 1 yr 3 mos · New Delhi Area, India

I worked as a full-stack developer for an e-commerce platform. I worked on building the IAM and recommendation system for the product.
JavaScript, Java