WORK HISTORY

September 2022 – Present

Senior Software Engineer

Zynga ( London, UK )

• Collaborating with internal and external programming teams to problem solve, find and influence optimal architectural, framework and gameplay solutions for various games.
• Working with the project technical and creative leadership to set the direction of architecture, testability and performance to support cross-platform development.
• Taking the project through the various stages from concept to release across multiple platforms and own several key aspects of the game architecture.

January 2020 – September 2022

Software Engineer

Electronic Arts ( San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA )

• Owning implementation of systems, pipelines and tools for active projects.
• Identifying and improvements to the existing codebase.
• Plan against and tackle new challenges that arise during development.
• Contribute to and follow best practices and optimization guidelines

May 2016 – December 2019

Gameplay Programmer

Tic Toc Studios LLC ( Burbank, CA, USA )

• Responsible for maintaining the bubble shooter framework.
• Adding new features in existing games based on demands of publishers.
• Creating tools for designers to help ease the process of design in mobile games published by the company.
• Collaborating with artists and producers to get the best possible output.
• Working with producers to identify technical risks and breakdowns for user stories and different game play scenarios.

Feb 2016 – April 2016

Client Engineer

Americana Games Studio ( San Francisco, CA, USA )

• Worked in Unity3d in client-server architecture.
• Maintained the client and parsing the data from server to give best possible UX experience for the user.
• Coding in C# with best practices and guidelines given by lead engineer.
• Helped server architecture using Elixir language.

May 2011 – May 2013

Mobile Applications Developer

Hindavi Technologies ( Pune, India )

• Maintained existing applications published by the company for various clients.
• Worked with native languages for each mobile platform – Android ( Java ) and iOS ( Objective C )
• Published an application for local bookstore company called BookChums.

EDUCATION

2014-2015

MS in Games & Playable Media

University Of California, Santa Cruz

2007-2011

B.E. Information Technology

University Of Pune, India