## BIO
BRIEF OVERVIEW A dynamic professional with nearly 5 years of experience in Software Development and Project Management. Presently employed with Green Space Technologies, Hyderabad as Technical Consultant/Tech Team Lead. Proven abilities in end-to-end Project Management including project planning, scoping, estimation, status tracking and ensuring implementation & delivery as per agreed deadlines. Sound understanding of Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Python, C++, Macromedia Flash, Action script, Renderware Engine, VC++. An effective leader with strong communication, analytical, relationship management and co-ordination skills. SKILL SET Technical: Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Python, C++, Macromedia Flash, Action script, Renderware Engine, VC++ Functional Software Development Requirement gathering and systems analysis Project planning and scheduling Application Enhancement & Optimization Designing & Development/ Coding Ensuring compliance to quality standards. Monitoring development activities and monitoring project progress. Delivering and implementing the project as per scheduled milestones Game Development Write, test and debug game play code for game products (both PC, Web and next generation consoles) Designing and communicating core gameplay, directing level layout, defining missions and game flow, tuning characters and mechanic Handling programming pertaining to AI, GUI code, Scripting, Visual Effects scripting / programming Write clear and manageable code EMPLOYMENT DETAILS Aug’07 – Oct’08 with Green Space Technologies, Hyderabad as Technical Consultant/Tech Team Lead Handling the Database and Website Optimization, optimizing mysql queries and the database schema to scale up thus scaling up the server capacity by more than 100%. Conducting a query audit and eliminated redundant/unnecessary queries reducing the query count by 70%. Optimizing the php code using memcached and caching sql reads & improving the website performance from Level F to Level B as per Yslow ratings. Implementing mysql replication for all the software installations, code certification & coordinating with a 3rd party gaming software auditor to audit and certify the RNG algorithms used in all the games. Overseeing the porting of the core software onto various platforms like Mobile and IVR & the development of many other instant games including Roulette/Lotto/Lottery. Undertaking Software Maintenance, bingo installations on eight different Networks of websites, creating several configurtion tools for various flavours of Bingo. Assisting the analytics team in the creation and automation of various Intelligence reports & creating several add ons to the existing games based on the promotions designed by the operations team. Attainments: Played a major role in growing the team from 3 to 25 over 2 years and managed the same with the help of 4 team leads. Successfully identified various roles required in the team based on technology skills and expertise & interviewed and selected people across all technical functions including development/maintanance and technical support for the software. Interviewed and selected people for various technology skills including PhP, Python, Flash Action Scripting, MySQL DBAs, System Administrators. Efficiently mentored junior developers about the internals/workings and the usage of the system & conducted performance reviews and appraisals on a half yearly basis. Since Mar’05 with MSL Inc, Hyderabad as Co Founder and Project Manager Handling software design, predesign analysis of the existing software providers and solutions & participating in the database schema design of the software platform. Designing a well scalable architecture with good performance & implementing the client-server protocol for the games, handling server side game development & developing 75, 80, 90 Ball Bingo game server with industry standard features. Making sure that there is a very low downtime while changing ISP & software upgrades and updates for all the networks. Attainments: Played a major role in developing bingo game tournaments using the existing bingo game engines. Successfully implemented the server side PHP scripts for flash client communication & client Side UI Development. Developed the initial version of the flash bingo game client & a basic version of the Video Poker client. Capably handled a software installation and maintenance, software on eight different networks of websites & took all precautionary measures during MySQL upgrade. Awards & recognisitions: GoneBingo ([login to view URL]) wins the prestigious New Site of the Year Award for 2006 from [login to view URL] ([login to view URL]) GoneBingo UK ([login to view URL]) wins the prestigious New Site of the Year Award for 2007 from [login to view URL] ([login to view URL]). Three of the top five new websites use this software. Nominated for Best Bingo Software at the Bingo Bullet Conference Jun’03 – Sep’04 with Milestone Interactive Software Ltd., Mumbai as Game Developer Attainments: Efficiently worked on a 3D game that was on the lines of RoadRash. Played a key role in implementing the multiplayer network module for a 3D game. Implemented the Non Playing Characters (NPC) AI and traffic vehicle behaviours & developed a tool to convert our custom ingame scripts to C++ code. ACADEMIA [login to view URL]. (Computer Science & Engineering) from International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad In 2003 . PERSONAL DETAILS Date of Birth: 16th June 1982 Address: Flat No 702, Block No 17, Malaysian township, Kukkatpally, Hyderabad
## Area of Expertise
Online Web based game development, PHP,MySQL, Apache, Linux Good in C/C++, Worked in Game development. Have a little experience in Java. Worked mostly on Linux platform but also know to port it to windows.
