Professional Experience

Therapeutic Games and Apps Lab at the University of Utah (TheGapp Lab)

Salt lake city, Utah, USA, Jan-2019 - May-2020

Software Engineer - Graduate Research Assistant

Virtual Home Simulator: A Virtual Reality application that simulates real time experience for social work students, developed in Unity3D.  

  • Currently used by more than 5 Social work colleges to train their students.

  • Converted real homes to interactable environments using Unity3D and custom-built libraries.  

  • Programmed cloud functions using Node.js to log and analyze user data in Firebase.

  • Built a standalone application to authorize new users and visualize user metrics. 

  • Trailer link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc0_Kl-cnrE

Virtual Motivational Interviewing: A mobile application built in Unity 3D that trains social work students in Motivational Interviewing.  

  • Extended the functionality of Unity UI components to provide customizability.  

  • Aided in building an animation system to queue coroutines to produce smooth transitions.  

  • Devised a system that parses excel files and converts into in-app content.  

  • Walk-through link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgoDcVdJgRE

Support Groove: A social network web application for people with limited mobility.  

  • Developed using HTML/CSS, PHP, JavaScript, Ajax and SQL. 

  • Incorporated the web accessibility standards to provide simple interface for disabled people.

Little Wanderers Studios, LLC

Salt lake city, Utah, USA, Dec-2018 - Mar-2019

Lead Programmer

  • Served as the lead programmer, engineering vital components of a 2D action-adventure game built in Unity.

  • Programmed character controller, UI and gameplay.

  • Engineered a scalable and modular collision system using ray casting.

IBuild Innovations India

Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Dec-2016 - Jan-2017

Game Developer Intern

  • Played a key role in the development of an action-adventure, and a VR sports game built in Unity.

  • Implemented gameplay, player combat and UI.

Education

University of Utah

Salt lake city, Utah, USA, Aug-2018 - May-2020

Masters in Entertaintment Arts and Engineering (Game Engineering)

GPA - 4.0

Osmania University

Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Aug-2014 - Jun-2018

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science

GPA - 3.8