Co-founder at nCore Games | Product | Analytics
๏ Over 20 years of experience in Mobile Gaming, Product Management, Data Analytics, and Education.
๏ Launched and managed over 50+ free-to-play games, reaching over 100 million users.
๏ Individual contributor, responsible for managing the entire data lifecycle, from collection to analysis to insights.
๏ Core founding team in multiple startups, scaled Product and Team from 0 to 1.
๏ Key Skills: P&L Ownership, Product Management, Data Analytics, User Engagement and Monetization, Live Operations, Growth Hacking.

How to reach me:

• Product Vision, Roadmap, Development, Go-to-Market strategy, and Growth.
• Set-up data collection pipeline, analyze data, run experiments, optimize game economy.
• We raised $10m in the Series A round, grew team size from 5 to 50 in 4 years, launched 4 games, and reached a user base millions of engaged players.

Skills: Leadership · Growth Strategies · Python (Programming Language) · Google BigQuery · Looker Studio · Game Development · Product Management · Mobile Games · Data Analysis · Analytics · Game Design

• Own P&L of Kitchen Scramble, Gardens of Time, Zoo, Bakery Blitz and other social games.
• Surpassed the quarterly forecasts by 15% by adding new features, balancing economy and design, and personalized sales.
• Grew the daily session length by 30% in Kitchen Scramble by adding a new 'Daily Quest' feature.
• Increased installs by 15-20% by ASO and App Store experiments.

Skills: Cross-functional Team Leadership · Kibana · SQL · Game Development · Product Management · Social Games · Mobile Games · Data Analysis · Project Management · Analytics · Game Design

• Re-organize the studio for rapid prototyping and product launch.
• Published 12+ hyper-casual games in 18 months. Analyzed the KPIs, and adopted a new business strategy - create deep and scalable games.
• Initiated production of Food Truck Chef, that rose to #1 in charts, generated $500k revenue in 6 weeks, and 2.5M+ downloads within a week of release in Aug 2017.

Skills: Cross-functional Team Leadership · Microsoft Excel · Game Development · Product Management · Mobile Games · Data Analysis · Project Management · Analytics · Game Design

• Content and LiveOps cadence of Millionaire City, Army Attack, Zombie Lane on Facebook. Developed and released 4 J2ME Mobile games.
• Designed and launched the 'Try Your Luck' feature that created a new Premium Currency sink with a share of 30%, improved sales, and boosted user engagement by 25%.
• Raised ARPU is up by 20% by introducing new virtual item categories, personalized sales.๏ Content and LiveOps cadence of Millionaire City, Army Attack, Zombie Lane on Facebook. Developed and released 4 J2ME Mobile games.

Skills: Microsoft Excel · SQL · Game Development · Product Management · Social Games · Data Analysis · Project Management · Tableau · Analytics · Game Design · R

• As a founding member of the start-up, built a team from scratch, set-up the development process, managed deliveries, engaged freelancers, and liaised with partners, publishers, and vendors.
• Developed 15+ J2ME mobile games in 18 months. Distributed by EA Mobile. 3+ million downloads.

Skills: Team Building · Client Relations · Game Development · Mobile Games · Project Management · Game Design · Start-ups

• DanceMELA - the biggest Bollywood music and dance-based MMO published in India.
• Manage production and weekly content updates with teams in Mumbai and Shanghai.

Skills: Game Development · Social Games · Mobile Games · Project Management · Game Design

• Full-time Lecturer in Computer Science.
• PhD student under the supervision of Dr.K.S.Easwarkumar (HoD, Department of CSE).
• Member of University Curriculum Review Committee for Multimedia/ Web Technology courses.

• Lead a team of 4 programmers to prototype a web-based 3D multiplayer game 'Nusantara'.

Skills: Java · Game Development

• Develop 3D Studio Max plugins for animation and SFX in feature film ‘Alibaba and the Forty Thieves’..

Skills: Game Development

• Courses: Python Programming, Fundamental of Statistics, Data Visualization, Machine Learning, Excel, SQL, Product Analysis
• Highlights: 500+ hours of course work, 3 capstone project, 1 open ended capstone project, 10 assignments.

• Courses:Multimedia, Computer Networks, Databases, Statistics and Probability

• Courses:Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Mathematics

• Scraped book listing to collect top 500 books using BeautifulSoup & Requests Python library
• Built functions such as get_book_title( ), get_author_name( ) to get attributes like title & author name
• Worked with Python lists & dictionaries, created a CSV of 500 rows & 8 columns using Pandas

• Analyzed 53k+ apps & 1.4 million+ reviews data with 18 columns by merging 2 datasets using Pandas
• Created visualizations (bar plots, histograms, scatter plots, violin charts, etc.) using Seaborn & Plotly
• Found more than 90% apps are free, 60% of the apps have <100k installs & <10% have <1M installs

• Working on a dataset with over 2.5 million customer details with 19 features
• Built a logistic regression model, made a prediction on the test dataset.

• ICC Cricket Mobile - Product director of ICC’s official Mobile Cricket game with Star Sports
• FAU-G - This is India’s first ever large-scale shooting action game. I did the BI and analytics for game optimization.
• Tappi - Product director of Bollywood music game.
• VainGlory, AngryBirds - Provided LiveOps and Analytics as a service to the developers.
• Food Truck Chef - Initiated Nukebox Suudio’s flagship game that earned $500k in about a month of launch.
• 15+ Hyper-casual Mobile games - Design, Development and GTM with 15+ ad-based mobile games.
• Kitchen Scramble, Bakery Blitz, Gardens of TIme, Zoo, Lucky Slots, Bingo by Ryzing - P&L ownership with LiveOps of social games on Facebook.
• Millionaire City, Army Attack, Zombie Lane, Crazy Penguin Wars - Analytics and LiveOps Project Manager of J2ME games produced by Digital Chocolate.
• Solitaire and Sudoku, Zombie Mob Defence, Skydiving Challenge, Tower Bloxx Revolution - Project Manager of J2ME games produced by Digital Chocolate
• 10+ J2ME games - Project manager for Amar Chitra Katha-based mobile games by Synqua
• danceMELA - India’s first and biggest dance MMO