Nov 2020 – Oct 2025 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Founded CloudFeather Games in 2020, with a clear mission to uplift game developers worldwide by delivering next-generation Real-Money Gaming (RMG) and Web3 tools—including a pioneering backend RMG engine—while operating with a lean core team of fewer than 10 employees  .
• Raised $1.25 million in seed funding during June 2022, led by Lumikai, alongside Venture Highway and strategic angel investors including Maninder Gulati and Manish Agrawal. This capital fueled targeted hiring in business development, product, and engineering, and supported the expansion of developer outreach programs both domestically and internationally  .
• Built and launched a first-of-its-kind “Bounty Hunting SDK” in December 2021—an innovative product allowing game communities to create custom bounties around in-game achievements, effectively democratizing fame and introducing novel monetization and engagement avenues beyond ads and in-app purchases  .
• Developed proprietary high-performance gaming infrastructure, including scalable multi-card game networks, server systems, wallet integration tools, and liquidity management solutions, delivering optimized performance, operations, and user experience for gaming platforms  .
• Acquired by Mobile Premier League (MPL) in December 2024 in a strategic move to integrate CloudFeather’s infrastructure capabilities—scaling MPL’s technology stack to enhance stability, performance, and gaming experience for its 120 million users across India, the U.S., and Nigeria   .
• Industry Impact: Under my leadership, CloudFeather has pivoted from a nimble startup to a recognized innovator in game tech, contributing tangible value in infrastructure and monetization strategies for global gaming platforms.

Sep 2018 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka

• Core team member in building India's biggest Poker Network from scratch.
• I led our vendor partnerships, game clients and quirky developers!

Oct 2017 – Sep 2018 · 11 mos · New Delhi Area, India · On-site

• Making conversations shimmer with a unique keyboard.
• Engineered a content recommendation feed to supply content based on a user's preferences on the mobile client for Bobble Keyboard.
• Designed a lossless Event logging framework for Bobble client to log timely user activities and scaled it to 15M events per hour.
• Improved the hygiene metrics of Bobble Android client, thus impacting a crash free user base of 99% (DAU) and 99% crash free sessions .
• Engineered and developed a chat logging framework (ACID), and scaled it to 5M sentences per day.
• Developed a vernacular speech2text module in Bobble Keyboard with LivAI integration, boosting the keyboard to support 10 Indian local languages.
• Tackled multidexing for Bobble Android app, and thus open sourcing the solutions under the name Dexter, which has been trending on reddit, has collab on devRant and also has 2 podcasts covered by AndroIdiots.

Apr 2016 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• My primary job was to make sure that Elune's technology strategy serves its business strategy.
• This venture focuses on making an ecosystem for both Doctors and Patients and how nest they can connect to each other for solving their problem related to healthcare. Elune had two verticals to cater services across the industry, namely Docbox and firstAid.
• Led the technology drive for both the verticals, Docbox/Firstaid by developing and deploying them from scratch to production.
• Cultured new skills in :
• Fund Raising,
• Marketing,
• Project/Product Management,
• Mobile development.

Sep 2014 – Oct 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Led the Native and Cross platform mobile app development team for ingoibibo - a vertical of goibibo focusing on the end to end Customer Responsive Management for the Hoteliers listed on Goibibo.
• Designed and developed the Ingoibibo mobile applications from scratch, responsible for publishing it through the different stages (Beta Testing, Pre-Production, Production) on the respective App stores (considering all the major mobile platforms i.e Android, iOS and Windows.)
• Have demonstrated my skills with :
• native app development IDE(s) : Android Studio, XCode and Eclipse.
• cross platform app devevlopment IDE(s) : Xamarin Studio.
• Fixed application bugs on Android and iOS which exist due to currently available and peculiar mobile devices (i.e. different screen resolutions, altering device specifications and a disparity of manufacturers ) and also because of the varying versions on the operating systems.
• Gained a sound skill to solve user-specific issues (in this case Hoteliers), thus converting 40% of the low-raters to modify their personal reviews and ratings for the mobile apps, which can be viewed on the respective app stores.

Oct 2013 – Sep 2014 · 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Worked on GARM, a platform that aims to build an ecosystem that fully manages the front office (trading and operations scheduling), mid office (risk control and credit) and back office (contracts and accounting) system functions and sustain the work of Global Supply , Trading and Risk Management for a leading Oil Corporation - Chevron
• Responsible for accounting different types of deals like Future, Forward, Option and SWAP.
• Published GARM / DApp / GT Interface / Cognos Releases on the environments
• Environment setup for GARM / DApp / GT Interface / Cognos
• Daily release planning and delegation of adhoc tasks to the team

May 2012 – Jun 2012 · 1 mo · Mumbai

• Worked in Spann Lab, Electrical Department (IIT Bombay) under the esteemed guidance of Prof. S. N. Merchant on Feature Extraction, Object Based Video retrieval, Video Shot Detection using SIFT (Scale Invariant Fourier Transform), LIBSVM and MATLAB.
• Compared Edge-Detection, Motion-Detection and Color-Histogram Algorithms on various data sets for Object Detection on the key factors of Accuracy, Total Frames, Total Content Frames and Time.