Engineered the growth of Mayhem Studios from a one-person operation to a robust team of 35 engineers. Architected platform restructure for scalability, implemented a cutting-edge matchmaking system, and crafted game AI behavior in UE4. My leadership and technical skills were instrumental in leading the company to a $20MM Series A round. • Established and led a high-performance game engineering team, guiding the development of a massive Battle Royale-style mobile game. • Single-handedly built the engineering organization, implementing a comprehensive recruitment strategy, providing mentorship, and improving team performance through targeted management initiatives. • Developed a high-concurrency matchmaking system using Google's Openmatch, ensuring scalability to accommodate millions of players. • Overhauled the backend platform, implementing a resilient Spring Boot + Kubernetes-based infrastructure to support millions of players.

Led impactful initiatives at Riot Games, overseeing engineering teams responsible for Competitive, Ranked, and Behavioral Systems for League of Legends. • Orchestrated a strategic reorganization of the engineering teams, resulting in heightened efficiency and improved communication. • Mentored and propelled senior engineers into leadership roles within multiple remote teams. • Championed the design and development of high-engagement, high-revenue meta-game features for League of Legends. • Ensured high reliability in a distributed environment serving 100MM+ players worldwide across 18 deployment environments.

Captained a team of eight engineers at Amazon Prime Video, leading the development of scalable and reliable solutions for online video delivery. • Pioneered a multi-CDN solution for distributing online video traffic across European CDNs, ensuring seamless delivery and unmatched performance. • Led the development of a highly scaled, low-latency system for video URL fulfillment, engineered to withstand data center-level outages.

• Developed solutions for performance monitoring and early failure detection on Dish Network’s online video services.• Re-architected Sling Media’s backend infrastructure for video encoding and encryption, improving performance by a factor of 2. • Re-architected DRM control software for Widevine appliances to improve reliability by a factor of 3.• Developed Encoding-as-a-service, to maximize utilization of hardware resources across projects.• Collaborated with vendors to evaluate and recommend solutions for encoding, workflow management, and hybrid cloud.

• Designed and implemented a SAMLv2 compliant architecture for cross-enterprise and intra-company Identity Federation.• Led migration to rich UI web applications.• Introduced continuous integration and automated code-checking tools for quality and productivity improvements.

• Developed middleware to enable high-throughput data access and transformations for drug discovery.• Redesigned and implemented systemwide workspace management, persistence and sharing of result sets across different user groups. • Designed and implemented an extremely low-latency “Lazy Loading” module for rapid data presentation to the client tier.

• Designed and developed web services for retrieving medical content and metadata from an XML database, and serving it to an XML-to-HTML translation layer (Cocoon). • Developed the platform’s security, authorization and access control system. • Developed Web Services and JSF-based frontends for interstate/international tax computation, and credit card validation and authorization. • Implemented Cocoon Generators, Transformers and XSL stylesheets for consuming and rendering web service content. • Delivered UML designs and design documents for the web services.

• Developed a suite of J2EE web-applications to keep track of plant-wide parts and materials inventory. • Wrote device specific C++ add-ons to improve I/O performance of shop-floor applications.

• Worked on the design and development of AGENTOS, a scalable distributed platform for developing and deploying software agents to provide location-based services to users of wireless devices, or as a generic infrastructure for developing Distributed Intelligent Agents.• Developed a Multi-agent Workflow Management Engine to orchestrate arbitrarily complex workflows. The engine supported dynamic generation of workflows, fault-tolerance and transparent recovery.• Developed a JMX-based Agent-monitoring and Management system.

• Worked on the development of the Netware Multimedia Server, Novell’s platform for delivering real-time data over bandwidth-constrained networks. Primarily, this required two things: (1) Guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) at all possible bottleneck points, for example, the disk-driver, network interfaces, routers; and (2) Lightweight transport and control protocols for delivering the data.