Gurubaran Bhavanandan

Senior Game Developer

Experience

07/2023 - Present

Senior Game Developer

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Worked on End to End Feature Development for the game WPT Global
  • Led a team of Frontend Engineers, Backend Engineers, Designers and QAs
  • Built content delivery systems and a custom promotions engine which cut down time take add/manage promotions to a matter of minutes
  • Implemented completely configurable ThemeSystem, FontSystem, LocalizationSystem, ButtonSystem enabling the customization of the UI to be effortless
  • Wrote engine code to support multiple windows/scenes on Desktops
  • Mentoring and Guiding team members to be better Software Developers first and GAme Developers second
12/2020 - 07/2023

SDE - III

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Worked on End to End Development on multiple games across mobile platforms like Android, iOS and Facebook Instant
  • Performed R&D on several internal libraries, plugins and pipelines, which cut down development duration for a new game by 50%
  • Ported existing games from Cocos Creator to Unity
  • Mentored junior developers and ramping them to become Individual Contributors
05/2019 - 11/2020

Software Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Worked on End to End Feature Development for the game FarmVille 2
  • Handled the complete overhaul of the guilds system
  • Developed Internal Tools for Re-skinning and Creating Models which reduced the Design Team's efforts by 40% and Engineering Team's efforts by 15%

Open Source Projects

Card Crusaders ∙ https://g-e-e-b-s.github.io/tcg-battle/

01/2021 - Present
  • Runner up at Bombay Play Internal Game Jam
  • A Multiplayer TCG with various strategy elements added to them
  • Developed a end to end game flow, showcasing the entire concept in under 2 days

Simply Shooty ∙ https://g-e-e-b-s.github.io/simply-shooty/

01/2021 - Present
  • Participated in an itch.io game jam
  • A hypercasual shooter game with a multiple types of weapons
  • Developed a level showcasing the types of enemies, weapons and the frenzy mode in a span of 3 days

Fantasy Carrom ∙ https://g-e-e-b-s.github.io/fantasy-carrom/

01/2021 - Present
  • Participated in Bombay Play Internal Game Jam
  • An arcadey take on the Indian classic board game Carrom
  • Developed a end to end flow with an opponent bot and showcasing the various powerups

Education

Tokyo City University

02/2018 - 07/2018

Undergraduate Research Fellow Machine Learning

SASTRA University

07/2014 - 09/2018

Bachelor Computer Science & Engineering

Publications

Card Party

01/2018

Card Wars

01/2021

Crosswordly

01/2022

Spot Match

01/2023

Dragon Tile

01/2023

WPT Global

01/2022

WPT Asia

01/2024