About

Prakhar Sethi is a highly skilled Principal Software Engineer with a passion for solving complex problems and developing exciting games. With over 6 years of relevant experience, he has a deep understanding of the challenges involved in developing games for handheld devices, where processing and memory capabilities are constrained, and requirements are ever-increasing. Currently working at PlaySimple Games, Prakhar is responsible for designing solutions for high-performance distributed systems. He has worked on several noteworthy systems, including the PvP infrastructure for WordWars, player data persistence systems, a central player login system, and an inter-player serverless communication system. Prakhar has also served as the Technical Lead of WordWars, a multiplayer scrabble word game at PlaySimple Games. In this role, he designed the data-model for the product and developed the complete logic for multiplayer gameplay using Golang and Firebase Realtime Database. He also developed various other features in the product, such as a real-time chat system, a Social request center to ask for/help friends, and an AI-based opponent for the game. Prakhar implemented various optimizations in the product, integrating Object Pools, Lazy load of non-critical resources, etc., reducing the application load time by 50% and improving the crash-free sessions by 4%. He supervised and managed the work of 5 other developers in the team. Before joining PlaySimple Games, Prakhar initiated the development of Daily Themed Crossword, a project based on the same tech stack as the Jungle Rumble project. He delivered the Minimum Viable Product within 2 months and led the development of the product by delivering stable feature releases every 2 weeks, guiding 2 other developers on the same. Prakhar also implemented a crossword grid generator using Python to aid the content team with crossword generation. He worked with various SDKs like Fabric for performance evaluation, Adjust for tracking product health metrics, Admob for ad-monetization, etc. Prakhar holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, where he graduated in 2016. He also completed his High School education in Mathematics and Computer Science from Little World School in 2012. Prakhar has expertise in Software Engineering, Senior Software Engineering, infra, AI, Objective-C, iOS, Golang, Java, and Android.