Co-Founder, CTO @ Experience live sports through Virtual Reality From February 2015 to Present (11 months) Greater New York City AreaDeveloper In Residence @ Techstars is a highly selective technology accelerator helping entrepreneurs get their companies to the next level. I worked with 4 of the 10 companies, assisting them with a variety of engineering and product needs including web design, front-end and back-end web development, research, and iOS development. From May 2014 to September 2014 (5 months) Greater Chicago AreaSoftware Development Engineer @ Software Developer with extensive front-end and back-end experience on Forza Motorsport, the best reviewed racing franchise of all time and the Flagship series for the Xbox One.
Forza Motorsport 5:
Developed and collaborated on designing the revolutionary Drivatar System, which was the biggest gameplay feature of FM5 and has garnered critical acclaim. The system learns from the driving behaviors of players and uses that to create digital clones in their friends’ races.
Developed UI scenes and the underlying functionality using the WPF framework.
Ported the game from PC x64 to Xbox One
Forza Motorsport 4:
Developed and collaborated on the design of the In-Game Marketplace feature end-to-end, including web services, IT admin pages and game side code. The feature significantly increased the game’s sales from digital content.
Developed various Kinect and AI features.
Languages: C++, C#, Matlab, SQL, XAML
Platforms/API's: Windows, Xbox 360, Xbox One, WPF From August 2010 to March 2014 (3 years 8 months) Greater Seattle AreaGamplay Programming Intern @ Worked on the Sims 4 while it was in pre-production. Worked with a small team designing and developing the gameplay architecture and the various gameplay systems that the game would be based on. From May 2009 to August 2009 (4 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSoftware Engineering Intern @ Tested several DHCP, L2TP and AAA features on Cisco ASR-1000 routers using multiple network topologies and wrote detailed test documents for each of the features. From May 2008 to August 2008 (4 months) San Francisco Bay Area
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science @ Cornell University From 2006 to 2010 International Baccalaureate @ Dhirubhai Ambani International School Saswat Panda is skilled in: Software Engineering, Java, Game Development, Cisco Technologies, Software Development, C++, C#, Programming, Agile Methodologies, Game Design, Testing, Artificial Intelligence, Scrum, Video Games, SQL