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Product Manager - Game Economy & LiveOps (Independent) | Systems & Platform PM: 0-to-1 launch, +15% conversion, −40% failure rates | Machinations Certified | Warframe LR1, 938h

About

I take live-service game economies apart and publish the numbers. Warframe, Legendary Rank 1 at 938 tracked hours - community reports for LR1 sit at 2,000 to 4,000. Star chart 238/238, Steel Path 238/238, 6,483 missions. That gap is method, not volume. Reading the system underneath a game is half of why I love playing it - I just stopped trusting my memory of how an economy works and started measuring it instead. WHAT I'VE BUILT SINCE JULY 2025 Measured teardowns of live-service systems, modelled in Machinations under a protocol declared before the first run. → Warframe / Digital Extremes. Ran the Jackal boss 20 times and recorded every drop. The blueprint set lands at 6.04 runs; the 700 Circuits nobody counts lands at about 20. The counter players watch had finished fourteen runs earlier. The binding constraint was in a different menu. → Digital Extremes content cadence. A permanent content room and a 30-rank Nightwave track shipped the same day. Only one has a publish moment you can attach reactivation to. The metric is lapsed-player return within 48 hours of an act going live, not DAU. → Electronic Arts, post-buyout. Greenlight becomes a pricing decision before a creative one. DLC attach rate, read without base-game completion beside it, makes a one-shot look like a platform. Certified Game Economy Designer and Machinations Essentials, both from Machinations.io in 2026. WHAT I SHIPPED BEFORE THAT Two years as a Product Manager at Bajaj Finserv, on platforms carrying real money and real audit trails. → 0-to-1 launch of a dual-partnership digital lending platform - 1% to 100% of traffic in six weeks, 15,000+ qualified leads, zero P0 blockers → +15% credit card application conversion - SoQL funnel analysis, ETB/NTB segmentation, targeted UI/UX changes → −40% transmission failure rates - SSO token handshake design across a three-tier stack → −25% downstream rework - developer-ready BRDs across PWA → Middleware → Salesforce B.E. Computer Science, MBA Operations, M.S. Management Science: Business Analytics and Systems. That stack is why I can write a PRD engineers trust, write the query that finds the drop-off myself, and put the roadmap in front of a C-suite the same week. I'm looking for a Product Manager seat on a live-service game - economy, LiveOps, or player progression. If your D30 curve is doing something your dashboards haven't explained yet, that's the conversation I want. adwaith.mrv@gmail.com | adwaith-mrv.github.io

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

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Work experience

Product Manager - Game Systems & Live Economy Analysis (Independent) at Self-Employed, Nov 2025 - Present · 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Independent practice built around one question: do the systems claims people make about live-service games survive measurement? Started November 2025 with published commentary on industry structure - EA's $55B take-private, the Battlefield 6 launch - and moved to measured, modeled work through 2026. Method - controlled runs, solo, no boosters, same companion across compared sessions, protocol declared before the first mission, before-and-after capture on every resource including the ones I wasn't farming. The zeros matter more than the totals. Findings are modeled in Machinations and published in full, including the runs that overturned my own prior read. Model • Warframe first-frame progression gate, "The Venus Gate" - 20 controlled Jackal runs, every drop recorded. The blueprint set converges at 6.04 runs; the parallel 700-Circuits threshold at roughly 20. Handed the model all three blueprints free and 30 of 30 plays finished on the same run. The counter players watch is not the binding constraint. Product Brief • "Surface the Binding Constraint" - a two-page PRD-lite on that finding, written as external analysis: decision box, options with verdicts, tradeoffs, build approach with a rollout gate, and an explicit verdict on whether AI is warranted. Live on the portfolio. Teardowns • Digital Extremes content cadence - a permanent content room and a 30-rank Nightwave track shipped the same day. The metric is lapsed-player return within 48 hours of an act going live, not DAU. • Electronic Arts post-buyout greenlight - DLC attach rate paired with base-game completion as its counter-metric. • Netflix and Mattel, opposite bets on the studio layer - buy reach versus own the loop, and what churning a studio resets. Certified Game Economy Designer and Machinations Essentials - Machinations.io, 2026. Teardowns, Models and the full brief: adwaith-mrv.github.io

Caregiving at Career Break, Aug 2025 - Mar 2026 · 8 mos, Chalakkudy, Kerala, India, Full-time family caregiving. Used the window to convert the time into credentials rather than leave it blank. - McKinsey.org Forward Program - completed - Generative AI Mastermind, Outskill - completed - Began publishing product and systems commentary on the games industry in November 2025, which became the independent practice listed above

Product Manager, Digital Lending Platforms (Unit Manager) at Bajaj Finserv, Jan 2025 - Jul 2025 · 7 mos, On-site, Led the 0-to-1 launch of a dual-partnership digital lending platform (BFL–Airtel, BFL–BFDL) - scaled from 1% to 100% of user traffic in six weeks, generating 15,000+ qualified leads before full rollout, with zero P0 blockers at launch. - Authored PRDs and BRDs across a three-tier architecture (PWA → Middleware → Salesforce LOS/LMS) spanning 4 SME lending verticals - cutting downstream engineering rework by 25% - Designed SSO token handshake flows for real-time customer data sync between middleware and Salesforce - cutting transmission failure rates by 40% - Owned release management across a phased rollout: 250+ UAT/CUG test cases across Web/Mobile PWA, SFDC automations and middleware, plus the triage protocol, severity matrix and escalation path spanning 5+ teams - the reason the launch shipped with zero P0 blockers - Built SoQL-backed dashboards for funnel analysis (lead → approval → disbursal) and LiveOps tracking - improving post-launch conversion by 10%

Associate Product Manager, Digital Lending Platforms (Deputy Unit Manager) at Bajaj Finserv, Nov 2024 - Jan 2025 · 3 mos, On-site, Co-led discovery and solution design for two strategic fintech partnerships, aligning engineering and business stakeholders on digital lending architecture for SME and professional loan segments. - Designed C-suite-ready process-flow wireframes and UX/UI specifications in Figma and Draw.io - cutting partner review cycles by 30% and accelerating CEO-level sign-offs - Ran 100+ UAT/CUG test cases per journey to validate cross-system data integrity and BRD alignment ahead of each phased launch

Associate Product Manager, Credit Cards - Digital Application Journey (Deputy Unit Manager) at Bajaj Finserv, Jun 2023 - Nov 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos, Hybrid, Owned Bajaj Finserv's credit card digital application journey end to end for eighteen months - a high-volume consumer funnel from first tap to approved card, with backlog, release and analytics all on my desk. - +15% application conversion - through SoQL funnel analysis, ETB/NTB segmentation, dynamic auto-fill and targeted UI/UX optimisation - +20% engineering squad velocity and 100% sprint goal adherence across 6+ consecutive cycles - through structured backlog grooming and sprint planning - −25% post-release defect rates and −18% release cycle time - through rigorous UAT, Salesforce Inspector analysis and systematic issue triage - Built real-time Salesforce dashboards tracking funnel health and stage-wise drop-off - the drop-off view is what located the conversion gains above

Internship Trainee at Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited, Jun 2022 - Jun 2022 · 1 mo, Kaiga, Karnataka, India, Analyzed operations-management and workforce practices at the Kaiga plant and reported the findings to senior management, working from primary literature and FY 2021-22 statistics. - Produced a summary of India's Nuclear Power Programme and its viability as a career track, sourced from internal documentation and published statistics

Education

Master of Science - MS, Management Science, University at Buffalo

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration, Management and Operations, Amrita School of Business - Bangalore

Public links

adwaith-mrv.github.io: https://adwaith-mrv.github.io/