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arindammitra1/README.md

Arindam Mitra

Co-founder at nCore Games | Product | Analytics
๏ Over 20 years of experience in Mobile Gaming, Product Management, Data Analytics, and Education.
๏ Launched and managed over 50+ free-to-play games, reaching over 100 million users.
๏ Individual contributor, responsible for managing the entire data lifecycle, from collection to analysis to insights.
๏ Core founding team in multiple startups, scaled Product and Team from 0 to 1.
๏ Key Skills: P&L Ownership, Product Management, Data Analytics, User Engagement and Monetization, Live Operations, Growth Hacking.

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Work Experience

nCORE Games, Co-Founder, Director of Product (Jul 2018 - Present)

  • Product Vision, Roadmap, Development, Go-to-Market strategy, and Growth.
  • Set-up data collection pipeline, analyze data, run experiments, optimize game economy.
  • We raised $10m in the Series A round, grew team size from 5 to 50 in 4 years, launched 4 games, and reached a user base millions of engaged players.

Skills: Leadership · Growth Strategies · Python (Programming Language) · Google BigQuery · Looker Studio · Game Development · Product Management · Mobile Games · Data Analysis · Analytics · Game Design

RockYou, Product Manager (Apr 2016 - Jul 2018)

  • Own P&L of Kitchen Scramble, Gardens of Time, Zoo, Bakery Blitz and other social games.
  • Surpassed the quarterly forecasts by 15% by adding new features, balancing economy and design, and personalized sales.
  • Grew the daily session length by 30% in Kitchen Scramble by adding a new 'Daily Quest' feature.
  • Increased installs by 15-20% by ASO and App Store experiments.

Skills: Cross-functional Team Leadership · Kibana · SQL · Game Development · Product Management · Social Games · Mobile Games · Data Analysis · Project Management · Analytics · Game Design

Nukebox Studios, (Mobile Games, Analytics) (Oct 2014 - Apr 2016)

  • Re-organize the studio for rapid prototyping and product launch.
  • Published 12+ hyper-casual games in 18 months. Analyzed the KPIs, and adopted a new business strategy - create deep and scalable games.
  • Initiated production of Food Truck Chef, that rose to #1 in charts, generated $500k revenue in 6 weeks, and 2.5M+ downloads within a week of release in Aug 2017.

Skills: Cross-functional Team Leadership · Microsoft Excel · Game Development · Product Management · Mobile Games · Data Analysis · Project Management · Analytics · Game Design

Digital Chocolate, Game Producer / Game Analytics (Aug 2010 - Sep 2014)

  • Content and LiveOps cadence of Millionaire City, Army Attack, Zombie Lane on Facebook. Developed and released 4 J2ME Mobile games.
  • Designed and launched the 'Try Your Luck' feature that created a new Premium Currency sink with a share of 30%, improved sales, and boosted user engagement by 25%.
  • Raised ARPU is up by 20% by introducing new virtual item categories, personalized sales.๏ Content and LiveOps cadence of Millionaire City, Army Attack, Zombie Lane on Facebook. Developed and released 4 J2ME Mobile games.

Skills: Microsoft Excel · SQL · Game Development · Product Management · Social Games · Data Analysis · Project Management · Tableau · Analytics · Game Design · R

Synqua Games, Sr. Project Manager (Aug 2008 - Mar 2010)

  • As a founding member of the start-up, built a team from scratch, set-up the development process, managed deliveries, engaged freelancers, and liaised with partners, publishers, and vendors.
  • Developed 15+ J2ME mobile games in 18 months. Distributed by EA Mobile. 3+ million downloads.

Skills: Team Building · Client Relations · Game Development · Mobile Games · Project Management · Game Design · Start-ups

Kreeda Games India, Project Manager (Apr 2016 - Jul 2018)

  • DanceMELA - the biggest Bollywood music and dance-based MMO published in India.
  • Manage production and weekly content updates with teams in Mumbai and Shanghai.

Skills: Game Development · Social Games · Mobile Games · Project Management · Game Design

College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai, Researcher/ Lecturer (Jun 2003 - Apr 2007)

  • Full-time Lecturer in Computer Science.
  • PhD student under the supervision of Dr.K.S.Easwarkumar (HoD, Department of CSE).
  • Member of University Curriculum Review Committee for Multimedia/ Web Technology courses.

InfoWave Knowledgeware, Programmer (Aug 2001 - Feb 2002)

  • Lead a team of 4 programmers to prototype a web-based 3D multiplayer game 'Nusantara'.

Skills: Java · Game Development

Pentamedia Graphics Limited, Programmer (Jul 2000 - Jul 2001)

  • Develop 3D Studio Max plugins for animation and SFX in feature film ‘Alibaba and the Forty Thieves’..

Skills: Game Development

Education

Data Science Bottcamp, Jovian (Aug 2022-March 2023)

  • Courses: Python Programming, Fundamental of Statistics, Data Visualization, Machine Learning, Excel, SQL, Product Analysis
  • Highlights: 500+ hours of course work, 3 capstone project, 1 open ended capstone project, 10 assignments.

M.E, Multimedia Technology - College of Engineering Guindy - Anna University, India (2001 - 2003)

  • Courses:Multimedia, Computer Networks, Databases, Statistics and Probability

B.E, Electrical & Electronics Engineering - SSIT, Bangalore University, Tunkur, India (1995 - 1999)

  • Courses:Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Mathematics

Certifications

Certificate course in Business Analytics & Optimization from IIT Delhi (July 2013)

Data Analytics certification from Coursera (Mar 2013)

Statistical Learning certification from Stanford Online (Apr 2014)

Coding Projects

Web-scraping: Collect top 500 book details from goodreads using Python (Project Notebook, Blog)

  • Scraped book listing to collect top 500 books using BeautifulSoup & Requests Python library
  • Built functions such as get_book_title( ), get_author_name( ) to get attributes like title & author name
  • Worked with Python lists & dictionaries, created a CSV of 500 rows & 8 columns using Pandas

Exploratory Data Analysis: GooglePlay Store Apps and User Reviews (Project Notebook)

  • Analyzed 53k+ apps & 1.4 million+ reviews data with 18 columns by merging 2 datasets using Pandas
  • Created visualizations (bar plots, histograms, scatter plots, violin charts, etc.) using Seaborn & Plotly
  • Found more than 90% apps are free, 60% of the apps have <100k installs & <10% have <1M installs

Machine Learning Project: Telecom Customer Churn Placement Prediction (Ongoing)

  • Working on a dataset with over 2.5 million customer details with 19 features
  • Built a logistic regression model, made a prediction on the test dataset.

Industry Projects

50+ Mobile, Social and MMO games over a career of about 20 years

  • ICC Cricket Mobile - Product director of ICC’s official Mobile Cricket game with Star Sports
  • FAU-G - This is India’s first ever large-scale shooting action game. I did the BI and analytics for game optimization.
  • Tappi - Product director of Bollywood music game.
  • VainGlory, AngryBirds - Provided LiveOps and Analytics as a service to the developers.
  • Food Truck Chef - Initiated Nukebox Suudio’s flagship game that earned $500k in about a month of launch.
  • 15+ Hyper-casual Mobile games - Design, Development and GTM with 15+ ad-based mobile games.
  • Kitchen Scramble, Bakery Blitz, Gardens of TIme, Zoo, Lucky Slots, Bingo by Ryzing - P&L ownership with LiveOps of social games on Facebook.
  • Millionaire City, Army Attack, Zombie Lane, Crazy Penguin Wars - Analytics and LiveOps Project Manager of J2ME games produced by Digital Chocolate.
  • Solitaire and Sudoku, Zombie Mob Defence, Skydiving Challenge, Tower Bloxx Revolution - Project Manager of J2ME games produced by Digital Chocolate
  • 10+ J2ME games - Project manager for Amar Chitra Katha-based mobile games by Synqua
  • danceMELA - India’s first and biggest dance MMO

Pinned

  1. webscraping_goodreads webscraping_goodreads Public

    Web Scraping with Pandas and BeautifulSoup and Requests

    Jupyter Notebook 2

  2. googleplayAppsAnalysis googleplayAppsAnalysis Public

    GooglePlay Apps and User Review Analysis

    Jupyter Notebook 1