Aravind Bala Kumar Shiva Shankar

Developed Hacked and Word Mastermind in its entirety using Unity C#, and implemented engagement-enhancing features in Route 66. Designed and implemented plug-and-play components, reducing development time by 40% across projects. Developed and deployed cloud functions to support push notifications, increasing player retention and re-engagement by at least 20%. Created an events framework enabling seasonal, timed, and permanent events, boosting retention by 20%. Mentored juniors on optimization and SOLID principles, reducing debugging time by 35%. Created PVP framework and tournament framework for cross-game use.

Built and maintained cloud-enabled game features using React, JavaScript, Firebase and TypeScript; developed Hacked and Word Mastermind in Unity C#; created plug-and-play components, a PVP framework, and a tournament framework; implemented push notifications via cloud functions to boost retention; built seasonal/events framework; mentored juniors on optimization and SOLID principles, reducing debugging time.

Created a custom universal plug-and-play dictionary framework for games to load words, reducing dictionary integration time across games by 20%. Developed and deployed cloud functions in Firebase to support push notifications. Implemented iterations of Hacked and Word Mastermind in cocos2d-JS and React to test across platforms.