Nikhil Sood

8+ years shipping commercial Unity products — mobile F2P, multiplayer, XR, and interactive 3D. Strongest as a senior IC owning gameplay architecture, LiveOps, content pipelines, tooling, and performance.

Game Systems Developer / Senior Software Engineer at Stellarplay Games (2021-09 – Present)

Mobile F2P Systems

• Owned gameplay and LiveOps systems across five live titles spanning hidden-object, puzzle and dice/meta genres, plus the internal tooling the team uses to push content.
• Built the progression, event-state and lives/revival systems that drive retention, plus the Addressables setup behind content delivery.
• Shipped live updates on a weekly cadence across 3 SKUs, and fix performance issues flagged in production and working directly with design and QA.
• Built playable UA ad creatives in Luna PlayWorks from game code & DLC LiveOps delivery system from scratch.

Senior Software Engineer at Juego Studios (2019-06 – 2021-09)

Client Projects

• Delivered multiplayer, simulation and hyper-casual games for international clients, covering gameplay architecture, optimization, shader/mesh work and production stability.
• Owned core loops and real-time gameplay integrations across Unity projects with SmartFox, simulation systems and device-level performance constraints.

Associate IT Consultant at ITC Infotech (2018-07 – 2019-06)

Unity / AR / 3D

• Designed and architected HomeCentre showroom app for sofa/bed placement, room layouts, texture trials and product visualization.
• Explored IoT, Vuforia and HoloLens R&D paths; received a Spot Award for AR application development.

B.E. in Computer Science – Chandigarh University (2014-07 – 2018-06)