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Engineering at Skillz (NYSE: SKLZ)

About

With over 16 years of experience as Director of Engineering at Skillz, I lead technology teams specializing in AI-native product-driven engineering, DevOps, data platforms, and QA. My focus is on fostering a collaborative environment to drive innovation, enhance operational efficiency, and build high-performing teams to support the company's goals. My career spans multiple leadership roles in the B2C space, where I contributed to building and scaling food , gaming, and e-commerce technology platforms. My expertise in Gen AI apps, technology architecture, development, and innovation allows me to align technical strategies with business objectives effectively, ensuring impactful product delivery.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

anthropic apis

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Work experience

Director of Engineering at Skillz, Feb 2025 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru, • Directed technology teams at Skillz Inc., focusing on AI Native product-driven engineering, DevOps, data platforms, and QA. • Successfully built a high-performing team from 0 to over 40 members in one year. • Fostered a collaborative environment to drive innovation and efficiency across all engineering functions.

Associate Director - Engineering at Games24x7, Apr 2023 - Feb 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Building and Heading PokerCircle Engineering! Leading the engineering productivity charter for the tech organization. Enriching the product features for improving overall acquisitions, retentions of the poker game from tech perspective. Collaborating with business and product stakeholders to keep improvising the product experience and improve the efficiency of overall product delivery. Please try out our new Poker Game App in the below page. https://www.pokercircle.co.in

Senior Engineering Manager at Games24x7, Oct 2020 - Apr 2023 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Part of the Product Driven Engineering Team in Games24x7. The team is responsible for building new games and integrating third-party games into the Backend Platform. Building the Poker Game. The team comprises BE, FE devs, and QA, and this team is responsible for building the poker game. Tech Stack used: Unity 3D(Game Table), React Native, Java(for Backend) and WebSocket(for communication) Leading the New Games Onboarding Section and New Tech Initiatives (NFTs & Metaverse) under PlayCircle Product Charter. Led the team to build the Generic HandHistory Service, Matchmaking Platform, and Leaderboard platform. Designed and built the entire backend architecture for the Risk rule engine for the risk analyst to mark the fraudulent users as blocked. Designing the entire backend architecture for new games to integrate with our platform services. Designed & Building a Marketing Creatives Intelligence and Automation Platform for better user acquisitions using Java(SpringBoot) and React.js for the front end. Designed the Authentication & Authorization system for the game platform.

Senior Engineering Manager at Swiggy, Dec 2018 - Oct 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Part of the merchandising team in Storefront Vertical.

Member Of Technical Staff at Cohesity, May 2018 - Nov 2018 · 7 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Part of the Search and Indexing Module, which is capable of indexing files residing in various file systems. (ext3, ext4, xfs, ntfs...). Building platforms pertaining to the indexing module of the Cohesity Storage module using GoLang. Developed a dashboard (web app) using the React framework for showcasing the performance metrics. Wrote services for the Dashboard using Python-Flask.

Specialist Engineer at Hike Messenger, Dec 2016 - May 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bangalore, Developed a System Metrics Reporter Platform for microservices using Golang. Developed several DB migration scripts/parsing utilities using Golang. Involved in developing a platform for Android App Perf (CPU, Memory, Data Usage, and Battery Consumption) for benchmarking the Android app across all versions. Involved in developing a platform for benchmarking activity launch times in the Android App. Profiling the Android App Using Pury (Open Source Plugin) and Native Library.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Arulmigu Kalasalingam College of Engineering

12th, Computer Science, P.A.C.M Higher secondary School