Software Engineer // Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Prasad Hegde

Software Engineer

I build the games casinos actually put on the floor — Unity front end to .NET back end. The house always wins; I make sure it does it at 60 fps.

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01 / PROFILE

Rider Profile

Software Engineer with 3+ years of full-stack production experience at Light & Wonder — one of the world's largest gaming technology companies (NYSE: LNW). Recognised for end-to-end ownership of complex features, including the first video-integrated Tournament Display system on the platform.

Progressed from intern to Senior Associate Software Engineer in under two years. Shipped 6+ ETG titles running on 100+ terminals across international casino markets. Proficient across platform C/C++, backend .NET/C#/WPF, Unity game clients, and full-stack web tooling.

LocationBengaluru, Karnataka, India

Emailprasadhegde2001@gmail.com

Core Competencies

Feature OwnershipClient-Server ArchitectureUnity Client DevelopmentBackend EngineeringPerformance ProfilingDebugging & Root Cause AnalysisRapid PrototypingCross-Functional CollaborationInternal ToolingAgile DeliveryAI-Assisted DevelopmentInternational Market Delivery

Shipped Titles

Ultimate Texas Hold'emRoulette & VariantsRoulette PODCrapsBaccarat & VariantsSic BoSBJ Tournament

3+ Years Experience

6+ ETG Titles Shipped

100+ Casino Terminals

02 / TRACK RECORD

Experience

Senior Associate Software Engineer

Light & Wonder

Mar 2025 — Present

Bengaluru, India

Sole owner of the Tournament Display feature — the first video-integrated, server-driven display capability on the platform, built as an overlay layer over the existing per-game architecture.
Built cross-game tournament support: client-server communication for tournament state, a live server-authoritative leaderboard, and a new animation layer for entry, standings and results — one implementation serving every title on the platform.
Enabled casino operators to upload custom images and configure live video playback during tournaments, turning the tournament screen into a marketing surface they control.
Primary engineering contact for Tournament systems and Ultimate Texas Hold'em across 5+ stakeholder groups spanning development, QA, art, and global teams in India, Australia, and the US.
Partnered with QA on regression coverage and issue triage; drove production defects to root cause with backend teams.
Ran performance profiling and log-based debugging to clear production bottlenecks, and established a more systematic defect-resolution process across the team.
Contributed to titles deployed on 100+ casino terminals across new international markets.
Led AI-assisted ideation sessions in the studio, cutting concept-to-prototype time and removing multi-week alignment cycles.

C#.NETUnityWPFC++

Associate Software Engineer

Light & Wonder

Jul 2023 — Mar 2025

Bengaluru, India

Started on platform engineering, contributing to OS-level components in C/C++ and building low-level systems fundamentals before moving into ETG game development.
Moved into ETG server-side engineering with .NET, C# and WPF — game logic, state management, and backend communication layers for live casino products.
Self-taught Unity in production and delivered Ultimate Texas Hold'em as a full production-quality Unity client in a single project cycle, from zero prior Unity experience.
Delivered 6+ ETG titles on schedule across Unity client, server and backend: Ultimate Texas Hold'em, Roulette & Variants, Roulette POD, Craps, Baccarat & Variants, Sic Bo and SBJ Tournament — including titles shipped into new international markets.
Investigated Unity Addressables, asset management and optimisation strategies; cleared bottlenecks through profiling and log analysis with QA and server teams.
Initiated and built several titles and features from scratch with minimal supervision.

CC++C#.NETUnityAddressables

Software Engineering Intern

Light & Wonder

Feb 2023 — Jun 2023

Bengaluru, India

Built automated test suites with the Robot Framework, ramping up through structured knowledge-transfer sessions.
Converted to a full-time Associate Software Engineer role within five months on technical contribution and team impact.

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03 / PERFORMANCE

Skill Matrix

Graded by evidence, not by a number I made up. Current is what I work in every day. Shipped means production work went out the door with it, but it is not my current stack. AI-Assisted means I build with it occasionally, with an AI in the loop — including this page.

Core Stack

Unity Current

Ultimate Texas Hold'em client, shipped solo from zero experience

C# Current

6+ ETG titles across client and server

.NET Current

ETG game servers, services, tournament backend

Unity Addressables Current

Asset management and load-time optimisation

Unity WebGL Current

10 titles hosted on the prototyping portal

Shipped With, Not Current

C++ Shipped

Platform and OS-level components

C Shipped

Platform engineering

WPF Shipped

Operator-facing configuration tooling

Python Shipped

Robot Framework automation suites

SQL Shipped

Backend queries and reporting

Web, AI-Assisted

JavaScript AI-Assisted

This site — ES modules, no framework

Three.js AI-Assisted

The instrument cluster on this page

React AI-Assisted

QR feedback admin panel

Node.js AI-Assisted

Feedback pipeline backend

Tools & Practice

Perforce Current

Primary VCS at the studio

Git / GitHub Desktop Current

Personal and web projects

Log-Based Debugging Current

Root-cause on live production defects

Performance Profiling Current

Unity and server bottleneck resolution

Client-Server Design Current

Game logic and state sync across games

AI-Assisted Delivery Current

Led studio ideation sessions

04 / BUILDS

Selected Work

Tournament Display

First video-integrated tournament system on the platform

1st

of its kind on platform

Sole owner of the Tournament Display feature — a new display overlay layer built on top of the existing per-game architecture, and the first video-integrated, server-driven capability on the platform. Casino operators can upload custom images and configure live video playback during tournaments.

C#.NETUnityWPF

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Cross-Game Tournament System

Server-driven tournaments, live leaderboards, every game on the platform

All games

single implementation

Built tournament support across the full game lineup — server communication for tournament state, a live leaderboard, and a new animation layer for entry, standings and results. One implementation serving every title rather than a per-game rebuild.

C#.NETUnityClient-Server

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Game Ideas & Prototyping Portal

Browser-based game concept platform

2 mo → 2 wk

concept validation

A web platform enabling developers, artists, and business stakeholders to submit, review, and evaluate game concepts — hosting 10 titles via Unity WebGL and eliminating physical hardware dependency for client demos.

Unity WebGLPythonThree.js

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QR-Based Player Feedback System

Structured feedback pipeline for ETG cabinets

Audit-ready

compliance data

A QR-triggered feedback workflow embedded in ETG cabinets and demo setups — replacing informal verbal feedback with structured, auditable, compliance-ready player data, plus an admin panel with automated Confluence sync.

Node.jsReactUnity

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This Site — TFT Instrument Cluster

Real-time WebGL, directed and tuned with AI in the loop

60 fps

with adaptive scaling

The page you are reading is a real-time WebGL project: a segmented TFT rev bar painted to a canvas texture and mapped onto a 3D screen plane, an ambient layer of instanced chips and cards, drag-to-rotate vehicle models, and a bloom post-processing chain. Built in JavaScript and Three.js — a stack I do not work in daily — by directing an AI and applying the graphics and performance instincts the day job gave me.

Three.jsWebGLES ModulesAI-Assisted

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05 / PLAYABLE

Arcade

Builds that run right here in the browser — no plugins, no downloads. Unity WebGL and Godot both export to HTML5, so they embed straight into the page.

Unity

Joker's Wild Field

Playable

Play Unity · ~8 MB

A Unity build running natively in the browser — Brotli-compressed with Addressables-driven asset loading, no plugin or download required.

UnityC#WebGLAddressables

Mouse + keyboard

Godot 4

Godot Web Build

In development

In development Playable right here soon

Godot 4 exports to HTML5/WebAssembly, so it embeds the same way as Unity.

Godot 4GDScriptWebAssembly

06 / FOUNDATION

Education

B.E. in Computer Science

Dayananda Sagar Academy of Technology & Management, Bengaluru

2019 — 2023 · CGPA 8.5 / 10

Final-year project: Software Defect Prediction using machine learning models including Reinforcement Learning.

Certifications

Machine Learning

Python

C++

C#

Languages

English Professional Proficiency

Kannada Native

Hindi Professional Proficiency

07 / OFF THE CLOCK

Interesting Bits

Everything my appraisal form has no field for. Mostly engines, altitude, and jokes that compile with warnings.

I Hike

Show me a trail and a genuinely alarming weather forecast and I am already packing. Altitude is the only latency I have ever enjoyed.

I Ride

Two wheels, ideally somewhere with corners and no straight lines to get bored on. That this entire site is built as an instrument cluster is not what anyone would call a coincidence.

I Drive

Long drives with no destination are my preferred debugger. No breakpoints, no stack traces, and the only exception thrown is a cow at kilometre 40.

I Travel

New places, questionable street food, and a camera roll that is 80% landscapes, 15% menus I meant to remember, and 5% my own thumb.

I Have Jokes

Studio-certified source of terrible puns. My humour ships with known issues and no regression suite, but in three years QA has not once managed to reproduce a crash.

The Dream Garage

Neither of these is in my actual garage. Both are rendered live, which is cheaper and needs no insurance. Drag to rotate.

Dream Bike

BMW S1000XR

Drag to rotate

A superbike engine that has been talked into wearing luggage racks. Sensible on paper, entirely unreasonable past 8,000 rpm — which is the exact trait I look for in an engine and, apparently, in a codebase.

LayoutInline-4

CharacterSport-Touring

Redline~12,000 rpm

Dream Car

Range Rover Velar

Drag to rotate

Flush door handles that retract when you walk away, a roofline no SUV needs, and almost nothing on the surface that is not load-bearing. Someone deleted every line that was not doing a job — I respect that in a design and aspire to it in a pull request.

FormCoupé-SUV

SignatureFlush handles

ApproachReductive

08 / FINISH LINE

Open the Throttle

Questions about the work, the engines, or the render pipeline behind this page — email is the fastest way to reach me.

prasadhegde2001@gmail.com