yoganand

Senior Leader Certified Smart Contract Auditor

With over 21 years of profound iGaming expertise, I am an accomplished senior technical and people leader, 
having contributed significantly to industry giants Microgaming and Derivco. Throughout my 10+ years of 
leadership, I have successfully managed and directed various aspects, including People, Processes, Technology, 
Product, Delivery, Stakeholder Expectations, Strategic Vision, and Scalable Growth.
Having navigated through 3 organisational and 4 technological transformations in the past two decades, I 
specialise in leading and managing change to stay ahead of competitors and meet the dynamic needs of the 
demanding market. My influential and collaborative leadership style has been pivotal in building trust and 
rapport across business and cross-functional teams, fostering a positive and supportive work environment.
I take pride in my ability to increase output and revenue for businesses without compromising performance 
or efficiency, consistently achieving scalable growth. Spearheading the delivery of cutting-edge iGaming 
products, I have ensured that they not only meet customer needs but also outpace competitors.
In my role as a leader in product development, I've established standards and technologies, implemented 
robust processes, and adhered to rules and guidelines to ensure consistent, reliable, and secure software 
solutions. This commitment is aimed at fulfilling customer and market needs, always using the best available 
tools and methodologies.
Beyond technical expertise, I am a servant leader, having hired and inspired talented individuals, mentored 
their professional growth, and fostered a collaborative culture to achieve common goals and organisational 
development.
I am recognised as a Top Software Engineering Practices Voice on LinkedIn, a platform where I actively 
contribute to industry discussions and share insights. With a proven track record of delivering results, I look 
forward to bringing my wealth of experience and leadership skills to new challenges and opportunities.


Experience: 5 years

Yearly salary: $148,000

Hourly rate: $80

Nationality: 🇮🇳 India

Residency: 🇪🇪 Estonia


Experience

Director of Game Technology
Wizard Games
2023 - 2023
1. Overseeing the ongoing business operations, focusing on operational excellence, resource management and cross-functional collaboration to drive organization success. 2. Leading and overseeing people, processes and technology, game development teams, software engineering processes, operations, appraisals, onboarding and hiring. 3. Managing, tracking and delivering the products short term and long-term roadmaps. 4. Led three direct engineering managers, who were leading robust agile teams each, with a total of 35 people in the department. Delivered games for US, European, South African, Canadian and South American markets and operators. 5. Working with marketing, sales heads and account managers before each game releases, and to ensure that they are on the same page with the features and release date, to communicate the release roadmap on social media, marketing and operators. 6. Aligned and optimised the development process, methodologies, team structure, resources and project management to deliver quality games in regular intervals. 7. No CTO and Architect, my role overlapped responsibilities of CTO, Architect, production manager, Engineering manager.
Head of Software Engineering Leads
Bigbank
2022 - 2022
Executing a departmental strategy to achieve company-wide goals Develop and achieve teams and department OKRs Recruiting and staffing teams for maximum efficiency. Managing, aligning, and empowering 8 software development teams, to deliver the 4DX Wildly Important Goals, business objectives and goals. Designing an efficient and robust process for cost efficiency and quality software delivery within timelines. Keeping the teams collaborative and happy, providing efficient tools, promoting openness, upskilling, growing, promoting innovation, and keeping the teams focused. Executing the technology initiatives for the department from the technology roadmap with our CTO. Coach Engineering Managers to develop and execute team-level strategies, mentoring and follow-up. Managing salaries and budgets of the department.
Product owner/Delivery lead/Technical product owner
Derivco
2001 - 2021
I have played diverse roles right from developer, team lead, delivery lead, software technologist, product owner, technical product owner, delivering cutting edge enterprise casino business application and online casino games.

Skills

blockchain
nosql
smart-contract
solidity
sql
web3
english