Sukruth S

- Crafted and developed a SaaS platform Gamzie for Gamification from the ground up. - Pioneered the implementation of a freemium Ad monetization model for Challenges Arena, unlocking a novel revenue stream. - Improved Challenges Arena's engagement by 65% through the strategic introduction of gamification activities. - Pioneered the evolution of our challenges arena, elevating the competitive landscape through the successful integration of AAA game esports – transforming casual gaming into a dynamic, globally recognized esports spectacle.

Product head for the following products managing a P&L of $45 million - Digital Content Distribution Platforms - Payment Gateway & Digital Stores for Games, - VOD/Video Streaming & Editorials Responsible for product life cycle management including strategy, roadmap, design, development, launch and maintenance of products Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary teams comprising of sales & business management teams, product managers, UI designers, engineering managers & DevOps teams

Created 3 new SaaS platforms - Payment Gateway for Carrier Billing - Headless CMS for Videos, Games, Music & Editorial content - Store creator for digital content stores. Responsible for key decisions on product life cycle management including strategy, roadmap, design, development, shipment, launch and maintenance of products Launched 12 digital stores on mobile web and app (Games, Videos, Streaming, Editorials and Music) for Tier-1 Telecoms in Europe, Middle East & Asia Guided a team of engineers in designing and creating products from scratch and achieve major improvements in the existing platforms Created a highly scalable payment gateway for carrier billing supporting multiple carriers in various geographies. Used by 10 products as well as multiple external products. Migrated the digital platform from an on-premise deployment model to a highly scalable cloud deployment model Created tools to enable digital marketing teams to track, control and measure the effectiveness of DM campaigns. Defined innovative methods to prevent acquisitions happening through digital marketing fraudulent mechanisms. Recruited, mentored and managed teams in UK, Spain and India to deliver new products & solutions Introduced test automation and deployment automation using Jenkins to ensure high-quality deliverables

- Managed a team of 40+ members, including Engineering Managers, Architects, Engineering Leads, Senior Software Engineers and Software Engineers - Lead team of developers to build mobile application (iOS & Android) for ringback tones (live in multiple operators) and its backend. - Guided a team of engineers in creating multiple products from scratch and achieve major improvements in the existing platforms while making sure the basic building blocks of the system are still in place. - Created billing gateway for mobile operator billing supporting multiple operators in various geographies. Used by multiple in-house portals as well as third party digital products. - Introduced test automation and deployment automation using Jenkins to ensure high quality deliverables. - Launched Digital Stores (Games, Videos, Streaming, Editorials and Music) for Tier-1 Telecoms in Europe, Middle East, Africa & Asia. - Migrated Digital services & storefronts from a completely on-premise deployment to cloud deployment on AWS. - Inculcated the culture in my team to focus on performance of the product and write efficient and maintainable code.

- Designed a billing solution for one of largest operator's in Europe. - Migrated the operator's billing from existing vendor to OnMobile's new billing solution and ensured a smooth migration for all the partners integrated with it. - Migrated a database driven backend built in Oracle along with all stored procedures & triggers to Postgres

- Decided the platform roadmap and managed responsibilities like project management, stakeholder management - Created and streamlined product delivery processes (Jira, Biweekly sprint cycles) - Handled a team of lead engineers. senior software engineers & software engineers while managing PRISM - Focused on the performance optimizations and achieved 10 million billing transactions/day in a single machine. - Focused on improving product quality by introducing test automation

- Lead a team of developers to build from scratch OnMobile's new subscription management system called PRISM. - Integrated with multiple operator's billing systems. - Handled the migration from multiple subscription engines to PRISM across multiple operators/geographies

- Worked along with a team of developers on OnMobile's first subscription management system - After the success of the ringtone's CMS, redeveloped a Content Management System for multiple content types, like Music, Ringtones, Ringback tones

- Developed OnMobile’s mobile commerce platform and applications for movie ticketing - Developed OnMobile's first central Content Management System for Ringtones - Built Language Models (Hindi & Bahasa) for Speech Recognition Software