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Shivanand P B

Shivanand P B

Product Builder | Team Builder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN
9986012083

Background


About

About

Engineering leader with 20+ years building scalable products and high performing teams. Experienced in driving product strategy, platform architecture and technical culture of fast growing organizations.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Tech Co-founderCostMos Pvt. Ltd

    Jun, 2025 - Present

    Co-founded the company in 2022, joined in 2025 to lead a pivot into Carbon Accounting Space.

    • Led the development of the platform to calculate GHG Emissions.

    • Architected and led the MVP development of platform and managed vendor partnerships for frontend implementation and system integration.

    • Collaborated with sustainability consultants and carbon-reporting experts to design accurate emission calculation methodology.

  • Staff Engineer 2/Engineering Manager 2Gambit Sports Pvt Ltd (Acquired by Glance in 2021)

    May, 2019 - May, 20256 years

    Gambit Sports - led a team of 8-12 engineers across product life-cycle of the 'Nostragamus' (Gaming App).
    Glance - led the technology efforts of building 'Nostra'(Gaming Community Application) and Glance Turbo SDK a Unity SDK for games.

    • Scaled Nostragamus app from one prediction game to multiple games including PVP realtime quiz and casual games, Rummy, Poker, Callbreak and Ludo Games.

    • Responsible for developing and managing the platform and backend services.

    • Re-architected the backend to reduce the Game join error rates by 40%.

    • Spearheaded the efforts of building tools and playbooks across the games and platform.

    • Architected engineering efforts of building a live-streaming SDK and Hype Train features for Unity games using Glance Turbo SDK.

  • Principal Engineer (Founding member)Flixy Games

    Mar, 2016 - Apr, 20193 years 2 months

    Spearheaded the Engineering for inhouse games and consulting assignments.

    • Launched a RPG game - Avatars Clash, Bunny Run a side scroller game, Lixy Calculator - a casual puzzle game in Unity.

    • Consulted Ultimate games (Play Games24X7 Group) to optimize assets and performance of thier all in one Unity card game.

    • Consulted Swoo games with building a live real-time Phaser match-3 game.

    • Built a 'Score Cricket11' a fantasy Draft game.

  • Principal LeadAkamai Technologies

    Jan, 2015 - Jan, 20161 year 1 month

    Worked with the Media CTO’s office to lead the development of proof-of-concept integrations of Akamai networking technologies.

    • Led POCs for Samsung Tizen, Sony Playstation and Chrome Native Client (NaCl)

    • Developed Apple tvOS application demonstrating live streaming capabilities at a trade show.

  • Principal Software EngineerZynga

    Mar, 2012 - Jan, 20152 years 11 months

    Owned game play features and responsible for the game performance.

    • Development and live-ops of gaming titles Cityville:Hometown and Forestville.

    • Was part of the early mobile development team of Farmville Mobile.

    • Owned and developed multiple features in DrawSomething and DrawSomething2

  • Staff EngineerSling Media (Dish Network)

    Jan, 2009 - Feb, 20123 years 1 month

    Architected of the SlingPlayer web plugin.

    • Led the development of SlingPlayer Browser Plugin on macOS for Safari, Chrome and Firefox.

  • Team LeadDigital Juice Animations Pvt Ltd

    Feb, 2005 - Dec, 20083 years 11 months

    Development of cross platform desktop application across macOS and windows for media management and media processing.

  • Software EngineerRobosoft Technologies

    Sep, 2003 - Jan, 20051 year 5 months

    Built applications for macOS.

Skills

Skills

  • Leadership

    Team Management

    Agile

    Hiring

    Performance Reviews

    Stakeholder Management

    Architecture

    Code Reviews

  • Backend

    Microservices

    REST

    gRPC

    PostgreSQL

    Redis

    MongoDB

    Spanner

    Observability

    SprintBoot

    Node.js

    Caching

    Kafka

    SQS

  • Mobile

    iOS/macOS (Swift/Objective-C)

    Android (Kotlin/Java)

    Unity

  • Generative AI

    LangChain

    GenKit

    RAG

    Prompt Engineering

    MCP

  • Languages

    Go

    Java

    Javascript

    TypeScript

    Python

    C#

    C++

    C

Education

Education

  • Computer Science, Bachelor, Manipal Academy of Higher Education

    Jan, 1999 - Jan, 2003

  • Management of Software Development, Certificate Programme, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

    Jan, 2008 - Jan, 2008

Awards

Awards

  • Champion Award , Zynga India

    Awarded on: May 01, 2014

    Increased the AD revenue by 300%, by optimizing the AD implementation.

  • Samurai Award , Zynga India

    Awarded on: Mar 01, 2013

    For beating revenue OKRs and improving the graphic performance of the game.

  • ET - Power of Ideas (First Edition) , The Economic Times

    Awarded on: Jan 01, 2010

    Advanced to penultimate round.