Aditya Nair

Cofounder and Lead Developer

Fiction Roast•  January 2024 - Present

- Led the development of a scalable, efficient and custom visual novel engine in Unity using C# enabling artists to deploy new titles with minimal technical intervention like Year of the Ladybug (1k + installs). - Managed Google, Apple and Steam developer profiles, including application page setup, testing track management and seamless production releases. Optimized KPIs in agile flow to grow the game. - Managed game marketing and promotion, including the deployment of a professional company website using GitHub Pages and hosting through Porkbun.

Senior Software Engineer

Game Hive Corporation•  June 2017 - December 2023•  Toronto, Ontario, Canada

- Optimized games using the Unity Profile and Frame Debugger such as increasing FPS up to 2x, caching local infodocs and images to reduce networking costs and improving core game code for a better overall user experience. - Utilized external SDKs such as Singular, GA and internal tools to track KPI trends on Tableau dashboards. Leveraged the results from the data trends to inform future game design decisions and employed CircleCI and Unity Build Automation’s CI/CD pipelines to expedite releases. - Monitored Data Dog and BugSnag for exceptions and handled related issues maintaining >99% stability. - Engaged in technical assessments and recruiting processes. Mentored new developers and contributed in formulating coding standards, review guidelines and procedure documentation. - Integral part of the development & release of mobile games such as Battle Run (1M+ installs), Tap Titans 2 (20M+ installs), Gold and Heroes, and Battle Bouncers - Collaborated with artists, designers, developers, quality testers, CTOs and marketing to release new games, features, and stability updates under tight timelines while maintaining high code standards and following OOP principles and MVC design - Integrated and updated systems to enable features such as In App Purchases, show In App Advertisements and In Game Notifications and Implemented real time multiplayer interactions using the Photon Quantum Engine - Assisted marketing team with promotional content and collaborations with prominent influencers such as Mr. Beast and Pewdiepie