Mithilesh Gupta

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 11 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Led engineering strategy for a major gaming division.
Achieved industry-best uptime and payment success rates.
Scaled backend infrastructure for 200K+ concurrent users.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Senior Engineering Leader in the Gaming industry with expertise in high-scale systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering And Product StrategyEnd-to-end DeliveryLarge-scale ServicesTeam ManagementTeam BuildingMvp DeliveryBackend Infrastructure ScalingHigh-throughput Systems

Other Skills

Agile processesAlgorithmsAndroid DevelopmentCascading Style Sheets (CSS)CollaborationCompliance SuiteData ScienceData StructuresDeep LearningDiscrete MathematicsElasticSearchFinancial SuiteFoundational platformsGamification SuiteGenAI Projects

About

Entrepreneur & Engineering Leader. Interested in all things that will drive the future - Web3, AI, and Virtual/Augmented Realities.

Experience

10 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

10 mos

Current Experience

Pronto

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Aug 2025 – Present · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Gameskraft

5 roles

AVP of Engineering: Head of Engineering & Product | Gameskraft - Tenet Division

Promoted

Apr 2025 – Aug 2025 · 4 mos

Director of Engineering: Head of Engineering & Product | Gameskraft - Tenet Division

Apr 2024 – Mar 2025 · 11 mos

● Leading Engineering and Product strategy for Tenet, a central business unit powering all games across Gameskraft.
● Owns end-to-end delivery across core horizontal platforms used by all Gameskraft games:
Financial Suite: Payments, Payouts, Wallets, Invoicing
Compliance Suite: KYC, User Management, Responsible Gaming
Gamification Suite: Offers, Promotions, Loyalty, Referral Systems
Security & Risk: Fraud Detection & User Risk profile
GenAI Projects: Driving homegrown initiatives in personalization, and automation
● Launched new real-money games in global markets; extended platform capabilities for internationalization.
● Achieved >99.98% uptime across critical systems and industry-best payment success rates.
● My team open-sourced one proprietary tech framework.
● Driving roadmap, delivery, hiring, and product-led growth with full org ownership.

Engineering and Product strategyEnd-to-end deliveryFinancial SuiteCompliance SuiteGamification SuiteSecurity & Risk+2

Director of Engineering: Head of Engineering | Gameskraft - Tenet Division

Promoted

Apr 2023 – Mar 2024 · 11 mos

● Oversaw a Lean & Strong 30+ engineering organization delivering large-scale services across payments, compliance, user acquisition and user retention systems.
● Designed and scaled foundational platforms with >99.97% uptime and high throughput.
● Introduced just-enough processes (OKRs, check-ins) to align 30+ people while maintaining high momentum.

Large-scale servicesFoundational platformsOKRsTeam alignmentTeam management

Engineering Manager (Functioning as Director) | Gameskraft - Tenet Division

Promoted

Apr 2022 – Mar 2023 · 11 mos

● Handpicked to launch Tenet; functioned at Director level reporting to VP
Engineering.
● Built team from 5 to 30+; delivered MVP versions of core financial, compliance,and gamification platforms.
● Set up early tech vision, architecture, and agile processes to move from zero to
scale in few months.

Team buildingMVP deliveryTech visionAgile processes

Engineering Manager <- Tech Lead <- Senior Engineer | Gameskraft - Rummy Division

Dec 2018 – Mar 2022 · 3 yrs 3 mos

● (2 fast-track promotions: IC -> TL -> EM)
● Scaled backend infrastructure from 1K+ to 200K+ concurrent users, enabling 20x
revenue growth.
● Delivered high-throughput systems (5K+ TPS and 50K+ QPS).
● Mentored ICs into tech leads; improved system reliability and performance.
● Collaborated closely with product and business for timely, impactful launches.

Backend infrastructure scalingHigh-throughput systemsMentoringCollaboration