Suraj Nalin

Co-Founder & CTO at PlaySimple Games

Suraj Nalin is the Co-Founder and CTO at PlaySimple Games. Suraj has 8 years 1 month of experience in this role. Prior to this, they worked at Zynga for 3 years 7 months, where they held positions such as Principal Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, and Software Engineer.

Suraj Nalin has a wealth of experience in leading development efforts of new mobile games. Suraj was instrumental in finalizing the tech stack for a new game, developing the backend supporting systems, and creating prototypes of early ideas. Suraj is skilled in Unity and C# for prototyping.

In their previous role at Zynga, Suraj Nalin was part of a small team of five people working on a new mobile game idea. Suraj explored various options available for 2D mobile game development and settled on Cocos2d-x (C++). Over the next few months, they worked with the rest of the team in coming up with a prototype for a fighting game, playtesting it with folks from other teams, and polishing it based on feedback. The prototype was well liked but the team was not given the go ahead to build the complete game by the higher management team in the end.

Suraj Nalin is a highly skilled and experienced software engineer with a passion for mobile gaming. Suraj has demonstrated their ability to lead development efforts, create prototypes, and optimize game performance. Suraj's experience with various programming languages and technologies makes him an asset to any team.

Suraj Nalin attended the Indian Institute of Technology in Roorkee from 2004 to 2008, where they earned a B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering. Suraj's CGPA was 8.86/10.

John Kelly, Suraj Nalin, Rajeeb VC, Preeti Reddy, and Manas Ranjan Mishra all work together as the founding team of a startup company.

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