About

Suraj Chandrakar is a seasoned Head of Engineering with over 12 years of relevant experience in architecting teams and building entertainment products at scale. Currently, he is serving as the Head of Engineering at Games24x7, where he is responsible for overseeing the development of cutting-edge gaming products. Prior to his current role, Suraj has worked as an Engineering Lead at Hike, where he architected the Hike camera from scratch to support features like face filters, boomrange, color filters, and video filters. He also led a team of 7 to design and develop the Teen Patti real-time multiplayer game server and client-side from scratch. Additionally, he led the prototyping team for AR content and set up the pipeline for art for face filters. Suraj has also worked as a Specialist Software Engineer (Mobile) at Hike, where he was responsible for developing several popular games such as 8 ball pool 3D multiplayer pool game, Shiva the time bender, CricketMatch, AngryAutos, Bollywood ka baap, and Friendship ka baap. He wrote the full codebase for most of these games, including key implementations such as time reversal, deterministic physics engine for turn-based multiplayer games, and edge cases handling for playing games in bad network conditions. Suraj holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in Information Technology from NIT Raipur. He has a diverse tech stack, including expertise in mobile and web3 development, blockchain, NFT, C, product management, and design. He is proficient in several programming languages such as Java, C++, C#, Android, iOS, and web development. Overall, Suraj is a highly skilled and experienced professional with a proven track record of delivering high-quality entertainment products. He is passionate about designing and developing innovative gaming products that provide an immersive experience to users.