Jan 2025 – Oct 2025 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Nov 2024 – Oct 2025 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka

Jan 2024 – Nov 2024 · 10 mos

• Led the entire Game Art, Tech Art and Product Design team at MPL. Shipped over 26 games titles for the MPL platform.

Feb 2022 – Dec 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Led the design for games and the core platform at MPL. Working with a team of Game Artists, Designers, Animators, and UI Designers to create games for the MPL platform. Additionally, I worked with Product Designers to build RMG experience around these games to improve player experience, retention, and monetisation.

Feb 2021 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr

• Helped improve the in-game experience of the platform by helping expand our SDK and help our developers utilise it effectively. Improved key user funnels on the platform by delivering improvements in the Unity game wrapper's experience.

Aug 2020 – Feb 2021 · 6 mos

• In four months, helped create and ship a web application for MPL's third-party developers. This tool helped them to create, update and manage their games and generated revenue on the MPL platform. Received positive feedback from both independent and multi-billion dollars developers/publishers on the ease-of-use and scalability of the platform.

Jun 2018 – Jul 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo · New Delhi Area, India

• ​As design lead for the platform team, created multiple frameworks and standard guidelines to improve both the user experience and developer efficiency. Helped setup core hiring processes for design and the overall career ladder.
• Leading a team of three handling 7 scrum teams, I gained extreme grasp on the cloud-analytics domain and the architecture of the platform. Handled the entire core infrastructure of the product including experience from the perspective of developers, APIs and users. Examples include standardized and quick to deploy object management pages, system observability framework, dynamically generated forms, framework to build and manage custom applications, and more.

Oct 2017 – May 2018 · 7 mos · South Delhi, Delhi, India

• ​Responsible for the design of MGPL, a real-money multiplayer gaming platform. Led a team of artists and designers to create the platform and its games. Led the creation of brand, vision, experience, and UI principles of a budding start-up in the skill-based betting market. Quickly took the product to market while simultaneously evolving using customer feedback and market insights.

Nov 2016 – Oct 2017 · 11 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• ​Set up a usability lab and recruited a team of user researchers. Conducted 500+ one-on-one sessions to evaluate over 30 varied products, features and concepts for Hike Messenger.
• The research conducted included usability evaluations, concepts testing, competitor benchmarking and evaluation, and user behavior analysis. I setup the process for initiating, recruiting, conducting, and reporting research across the organization. Reduced cost of research from 8 weeks/25000$ to 3 days/400$. Setup a culture of quick iterative research across the org

Apr 2015 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bangalore · On-site

• As a key designer at Tiny Mogul Games, I worked on a Bollywood-themed narrative choices game, where players took on the role of a director interacting with actors, lyricists, and music directors to produce a film. Designed game systems, mechanics, and an economy of time spent and progress. Collaborated with developers on movement prototypes and generated imaginative character ideas. While this particular game was shelved, it showcased my expertise in system design.
• Now working as a creative director, I led a team of artists and developers to create a unique Teen Patti game exclusively for India's biggest gaming platform, Hike. Our game stood out with its portrait orientation and compact size of less than 1MB, compared to competitors' 30MB+ downloads.
• Additionally, I successfully pitched and received greenlight for a quiz-based collectible card game with a Bollywood theme. Contributed to the art direction and content creation, incorporating Bollywood personality dialogues for added flair and appeal.
• Tiny Mogul Games, the studio behind hits like Bollywood ka Baap and Quiz Adda, was later merged with Hike Messenger.

Dec 2014 – May 2015 · 5 mos · India

• Designed and developed several games working independently as a game designer.
• My most prominent game being "Darshan Diversion", a hackathon entry in Global Game Jam that was later discussed in media articles in NPR, Quartz, Homegrown and Scroll amongst multiple others. Besides designing and writing for the game in a team of three, I lead the art direction for the game and created pixel art assets.
• Built from scratch and launched an experimental and unique tile-based puzzle game in Haxe Framework. The game was published on Android play store.

Jul 2013 – Jan 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Responsible for client communication, understanding requirements, creating flows, information architecture, and wireframes. Acted as a mediator between clients and the visual design team.
• Notable projects include leading the design of Demand Farm, a key account management tool, and contributing to the development of VisionLink by Trimble, a telematics product for Caterpillar equipment. Conducted global research and designed intuitive user interfaces.
• Proactively contributed to office decor and collaborated on promotional materials

May 2012 – Jul 2012 · 2 mos · Ansan, Gyeonggi-do, Korea

• Department of Industrial and Management Engineering at ERICA Campus, Hanyang University.

Feb 2012 – Apr 2013 · 1 yr 2 mos · Guwahati

• Student Representative, Placements for the Batch of 2013(expected) of undergraduate students, Department of Design at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

Oct 2011 – Dec 2011 · 2 mos · Guwahati Area, India

• Created a tour video for promotional purpose

May 2011 – Jul 2011 · 2 mos · Andheri, Mumbai

• Designed games and User Interface for HCL Digischool during internship as UI Designer & Art Manager at Attano Media Pvt. Ltd. (the then subsidiary Of Hurix System Pvt. Ltd.).

Oct 2010 – Oct 2011 · 1 yr · Guwahati

• Worked as a Core Member, dealing with online and media partners, colleges of western region of the country for the branding of the fest.
• The work included heading the design team of 13 designers responsible for branding and promotional material of the festival.