Shashank Nagaraja Gargeshwari Email & Phone Number

California, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Led a multidisciplinary team of 8 to develop Quizizz's first ever game "Mastery Peak" in <5 months, achieving 150% of adoption and retention benchmarks for 2M users across 500K online game
• Performed post-release retrospective on “Mastery Peak” game to identify strengths and deficits of product; Leveraged learnings to pitch improved product strategy to C-suite team, who adopted it for future games
• Collaborated with design, tech, and marketing teams to formulate progressive go-to-market strategy and ramped-up release from 2% to 100% of user base in < 3 weeks, achieving 100K games played in first month
• Organized systematic user research and product testing with 200+ end users, analyzed quantitative and qualitative data to clarify pain points in game, and implemented insights to boost NPS from 7 to 9
• Established agile project management process from scratch for product team by conducting weekly upskilling sessions on bug tracking, sprint planning and release road mapping, which resulted in 70% lower missed tasks

• Spearheaded the ideation, development, and delivery of “NeoWorksheets” quiz product that eliminatedreliance on 3rd party tools, cut content creation time by 80%, and identified new market opportunity of $5M+
• Benchmarked 20+ competitors to specify full feature requirements of 30+ new quiz templates, prioritized among features to drive final product roadmap, and presented weekly progress updates to company founders
• Synthesized and maintained product documentation by designing 150+ wireframes and 40+ design system components on Figma and translating designs into product requirements documentation for developers
• Optimized quiz development pipeline by collaborating with developers to create novel UI animationframework that auto-converts design systems and animations into code, reducing project timeline by 30%

Gurgaon, Haryana, India

• Led a multidisciplinary team of 10 to develop "Secret of the Numeras," SplashLearn’s largest and mostsuccessful learning game till date that has been played 20M+ times by 2M+ learners worldwide
• Created data dashboards on Mixpanel to monitor 50+ metrics of product health, analyzed data to derive key insights, and pushed out monthly feature updates over a 6-month period to achieve 60% lower user churn
• Partnered with the tech team to optimize gamification algorithm for 300+ collectible cards by designing and running 100K Monte-Carlo simulations on Unity, leading to a 200% increase in retention for 500K users
• Invented “Ludus”, a novel way to teach math interactively, initiating SplashLearn’s first patent application
• Founded and curated “Libre”, the internal newsletter for employees to share learning resources; 15% ofemployees shared and used 300+ educational resources, diminishing redundancy in secondary research effort
• Facilitated art and craft sessions during COVID-19 lockdown for over 50 employees to boost morale

India

• Developed search tools for employee documents using Apache Solr for a major Canadian Airlines
• Developed browser-based product design tools for solar panel arrays for a German alternative energy manufacturer

Bengaluru

• Worked as a freelance designer for a wide range of clients
• Designed and Developed POCs for an online multiplayer Pictionary game, game to teach people Ikigai, and a hotel management simulator to teach high school kids business
• Designed, Fabricated and Installed signboards for a couple of rain water harvesting lakes in Coorg, Karnataka for TATA Coffee

Master Of Business Administration

Master Of Science - Ms, Design Innovation

Master Of Design, Digital Game Design

Activities and Societies: President, NID Bangalore Film Club • Earn While You Learn Designer

Exchange Student, Multimedia Studies

Bachelor Of Engineering (Be), Computer And Information Sciences, General

Activities and Societies: Art Chief and English Editor - SJCE Editorial Board • Football Team • Debate Club