Experience

Gala

• United States
• Software Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Product & Analytics

  • Jan 2023 - Present

  Helping device an analytical process and an analytics infrastructure to power next scale of web3 games and more. Setting up a numbers & analytical process driven Product Management function for games. Helping device an analytical process and an analytics infrastructure to power next scale of web3 games and more. Setting up a numbers & analytical process driven Product Management function for games.



Aasthy

• Singapore
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder

  • Aug 2020 - Present

• Engineering

  • Mar 2021 - Feb 2023

• Whatever it takes

  • Jan 2022 - Jan 2023

  Strategy, Product, Tech, Finance+Legal, HR



Proof of Play

• United States
• Blockchain Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Angel Investor

  • Jan 2022 - Present

  Advisor on web3 non-inflating economy design for the first game Pirate Nations. Advisor on web3 non-inflating economy design for the first game Pirate Nations.



Multiple Companies

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Advisor

  • Aug 2022 - Present



Multiple Companies

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Advisor

  • Oct 2020 - Mar 2021



Bayer

• Chemical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head of FarmRise (smallholder digital platform)

  • Jul 2019 - Oct 2020

  Making digital tools that impact lives of hundreds of millions of farmers and their ecosystem. Making digital tools that impact lives of hundreds of millions of farmers and their ecosystem.



Climate

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head of FarmRise, Climate India

  • Jul 2019 - May 2020

  Making digital tools that impact lives of hundreds of millions of farmers and their ecosystem. Setting up Climate Corp’s India foundation. Making digital tools that impact lives of hundreds of millions of farmers and their ecosystem. Setting up Climate Corp’s India foundation.



Tencent

• China
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• General Manager, Head South Asia - Tencent Games

  • Jan 2018 - Jul 2019

  Setting up Tencent in India. Have you heard of PUBG Mobile?! ★ General Manager / Business Head » Scaled up monetization of Tencent Games India - powering PUBG Mobile to 15% share of market revenues. » Strategized a 3-year plan for business with breakeven in 26 months. » Led casual games publishing operating on a $10M P&L. » Operationalized India office in Bangalore building a strong core team and an effective support org (HR/Finance/Admin). » Initiated a wider South Asia business covering Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and supported Middle East. Show less



Moonfrog Labs

• India
• Computer Games
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Founding Member, Associate General Manager

  • Nov 2013 - Jan 2018

  Moonfrog is India’s No. 1 gaming company, developing social games for the Indian market. Teen Patti Gold is Moonfrog's flagship product which is also the highest grossing Indian game. As part of the founding team raised $1 MM Seed funding from Sequoia Capital and $15 MM Series-A funding from Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global, one of the largest in the industry. ★ Associate General Manager » Drove profits, reduced attrition. ★ Lead Product Manager » Streamlined pipeline/backlog planning and release process by defining processes across functions. » New business initiative - built a reseller network internationally (leading to +35% revenue). » Mentored Product and Analytics team and improved capacity to run live games. » Defined fraud and abuse prevention (BlackOps) strategy effectively leading to +30% revenue. » Defined engineering performance optimisations to enhance UX. » Defined and executed pricing and monetization strategy tripling revenue within 12 months. ★ Product Manager » Designed best in class social and viral features leading to the quadrupling of user base within 12 months. » Performance marketing / ASO to drive installs and user acquisition. » Reduced friction to payment by working on alternate methods of payment. » A/B tested flows to optimise for retention and create self-sustaining user acquisition plan. » Launch and re-launch of titles on Google Play Store and Apple Appstore. » Fine tuning economy flows to double revenue of Bingo Club. ★ Senior Software Engineer » Built best-in-class analytics framework capable of consuming and sifting through 20 Billion data points daily. » Strategized the design and deployment of A/B testing framework which can run 1000+ independent experiments simultaneously. » Developed a reporting framework for monitoring. » Built a game platform using Cocos 2D X. » Designed high concurrency back-end/server architecture with the help of storage solutions for various use-cases (MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, etc.) Show less



Zynga

• United States
• Computer Games
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer

  • May 2012 - Nov 2013

  Developed games, in-game features, cross-game (platform) technologies and worked on product analysis and improvement across 3 departments - Tech Innovations, Empires & Allies and CastleVille. ★ Software Engineer - CastleVille » Designed targeted sales strategy and was involved in feature planning and balancing. » Improved user retention by focussing on player love, UX and user-facing issues. » Reduced NetOps cost by 60%. » Devised and implemented run-time re-distribution of massive data without additional hardware support (Memcache and Membase). » Designed methods to handle extreme server load and reduce hardware usage by throttling and prioritising requests with the help of NGINX. » Designed and implemented caching of user meta-data in compute machines to reduce CPU sleep cycles and drastically reduce network usage. » Memory optimisation by in-place copying of bitmaps in Action Script lead to 80% reduction of browser memory usage. ★ Associate Software Engineer - Empires and Allies » Reduced load times by 80% to match best online games by effectively re-using and appropriately invalidating client cache. » Improved game performance and FPS by using indexed data structures and reducing computation. » Developed new re-usable game features closely linked with Social Networking APIs. ★ Associate Software Engineer - Tech Innovations » XML to indexed JSON based storage of large configurations for quicker warming up of data structures from disk to memory. » HAXE - AS3 bridge for quicker computation of collision and path-finding using simpler datatypes allowed in haxe. Show less



Reliance Retail

• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Intern

  • May 2011 - Jul 2011

  ★ TrendTrack - Innovative market research solution using the latest technology. » Data capture through android based input devices. » Scalable storage of unstructured data. » Web-based visual graphs with analytics (runtime) on consumer profiles. ★ TrendTrack - Innovative market research solution using the latest technology. » Data capture through android based input devices. » Scalable storage of unstructured data. » Web-based visual graphs with analytics (runtime) on consumer profiles.



Systemantics India Private Limited

• Bangalore

• Intern

  • Apr 2010 - Jul 2010

  ★ Automated Tree Climber (for Coconut and Areca nut extraction) » Designed and built an automated tree climber robot to extract coconuts and arecnuts in large farms. » Logical design and implementation using 8051 and PIC (microchip) based logic controllers for automation. » Mechanical design and implementation using Festo air muscles as actuators. » Electronic design and implementation to use high power solenoid valves with practically feasible power sources like air pumps. ★ Automated Tree Climber (for Coconut and Areca nut extraction) » Designed and built an automated tree climber robot to extract coconuts and arecnuts in large farms. » Logical design and implementation using 8051 and PIC (microchip) based logic controllers for automation. » Mechanical design and implementation using Festo air muscles as actuators. » Electronic design and implementation to use high power solenoid valves with practically feasible power sources like air pumps.



Adobe Systems Incorporated

• San Jose

• Intern

  • Jan 2010 - Jul 2010

  Double square algorithm for dynamic video buffering during re-sizing. Double square algorithm for dynamic video buffering during re-sizing.