Pravin Babar

Technical Director

Email:

pravin.babar.queries@outlook.com

Address:

Culver City

CA 90230

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Hello! I'm Pravin

Software Engineer by trade, artist, poet and guitarist at heart, mathematician, science geek and video gamer by passion...

EXPERIENCE

2022-Current

Technical Director

SKYDANCE INTERACTIVE

Current Title: Unannounced VR Project, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners

Studio Technical Director, in an Unreal Engine 4 based codebase

Working with the creative director and production director to plan, track and facilitate the team in setting goals, deciding feature sets and achieving milestones
Working with Oculus and Sony on VR Hardware requirements and evaluation
Optimizing CPU/GPU performance for Oculus Quest 2, PSVR and PC platforms
Workflow improvements in terms of tools, guidelines and backend processes
Leading a team of talented and passionate engineers and leads
Providing mentorship, guidance, technical direction and motivation to the team
Reviewing code, evaluating performance and helping set and achieve career goals
Interviewing and hiring the best talent for the studio
Structuring the internship program for the studio

2019-2022

Lead Software Engineer

UNBROKEN STUDIOS

Working Title: Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Project

Technical Director with focus on management and coordination of co-development efforts with Rocksteady Studios, in an Unreal Engine 4 based codebase

Worked with the design director and creative director to lead the development of
- Gameplay (Weapons, RPG, AI and more)
- Multiplayer and Networking (Online, backend, networked gameplay and more)
- Tools (Perforce plugins and more
Facilitated communication between the studios, overcoming challenges with differences in time zone, studio culture, workflow and production pipelines
Improved workflow by introducing better code review structure, compilation improvements, introduction of SN-DBS distributed compilation, P4 Tools
Managed and mentored a team of six engineers and two leads as direct reports
- Code reviews, guidance, technical direction and motivation
- Performance evaluation and Career Development

• Helped grow the studio from about 23 to 75 employees over a period of two years

Interviewed engineering and other related discipline candidates
Introduced better programming tests for junior and mid level candidates
Helped revamp performance review cycles and content for 360 reviews
Introduced a mentorship program for general studio knowledge growth
Was a part of a diversity channel for efforts towards diversity and inclusion

2018-2019

Lead Software Engineer

BAD PANDA INC.

Product developed: GifYourGame (gifyourgame.com)

Project lead engineer for a middleware which records and processes gameplay clips for games like Fortnite, PUBG, Rocket League etc.

Managed a team of five engineers as direct reports while developing the following features in C++ and Javascript:
- Replay parsing for games in Unreal Engine 4: Fortnite, PUBG, Rocket League.
- Implementation of cinematic rendering of GIFs created from replays.
- Backend managements for clip generation and renderers.

2015-2018

Senior Software Engineer

TREYARCH

Shipped Title: Call of Duty: Black Ops 4

Worked on A.I. and gameplay systems:

• Developed several A.I. archetypes, in collaboration with artists and designers, for different game modes such as campaign and zombies

• Helped with networking optimization for Battle Royale 100 player gameplay

• Implemented different weapons and other gameplay features

• Did an overhaul of trigger systems to help level designers and gameplay scripters

• Optimized network usage of animated props in maps

• Managed and mentored two junior gameplay engineers

Shipped Title: Call of Duty: Black Ops 3

• Fully revamped the UI authoring pipeline by developing a Photoshop-like UI tool which helps in authoring and integrating immersive UI along with art into the game without relying on tedious scripting

• Managed and mentored a summer intern for four months. His tasks involved UI and Online system features

• Worked on several networking, online systems, UI and backend features on the PS4 and XBOX One platforms

• Worked on the in-game scoreboard and the Groups feature which allows people to create and manage clans and guilds

2011-2015

Software Engineer

TREYARCH

Shipped Title: Call of Duty: Black Ops 2

Improved UI authoring workflow by transitioning the UI system implementation from an old macro based system to a more robust lua script based system
Worked on several networking, online systems, UI, backend, statistics, gameplay systems and scripting features on the XBOX 360, PS3 and PC platforms which include:
- Implementation of new types of guns, grenades and aircraft
- Leaderboards, Create-a-Class, Combat Record, League Play and Friends List

2009-2011

Associate Software Engineer

TREYARCH

Shipped Title: Call of Duty: Black Ops

Worked on several features on the XBOX 360 and PlayStation 3 and PC platforms related to networking, online systems, UI, backend and statistics, which include:

Console specific implementation for In-game host migration (PS3).
Several runtime optimizations for the UI system.
Backend stats, storage and UI for Leaderboards, Create-a-Class, Combat Record and After Action Report.
Console specific implementation and UI for the in-game friends list (XBOX 360 and PS3).