TANVI GAVALI

tanvigavali248@gmail.com | +91 8928918197 | Mumbai, IN

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Mangobits Studios, Mumbai, IN | Director and Producer October 2025  – present

• Lead production, schedule tasks, and prioritize features for both of these games, and publish them on Steam.

• Use Trello and manage a strict product backlog and budget to meet key milestones like demo releases, events, and publisher showcases.

• Coordinate daily with a UK-based developer and manage our Discord playtesting community to streamline the QA pipeline by consolidating community feedback, triaging bugs, and assigning actionable tasks.

• Act as a Creative Director and Level Designer for Fruitbearer; have produced a public Steam demo that successfully generated ~1,000 wishlists, 1,400+ lifetime units, and a positive player review profile.

• Successfully produced and released Fruit Fusion, driving 414,000+ Steam Store impressions, over 30,000 lifetime total units, and 40 user reviews through organic marketing and community building.

• Established the studio's legal and financial infrastructure, including authoring MOA/AOA documentation and securing official DPIIT Startup recognition; manage publisher relations, pitch deck creation, press kits, and contract/NDA reviews. 

• Grow and maintain the studio's digital footprint across social media platforms (500+ followers each) and own the PR outreach strategy targeting streamers and potential publishing partners.

• Post consistently, respond to all reviews and feedback for the game, and engage with the indie gaming community.

• Write content and create trailers and video shorts for YouTube and TikTok using DaVinci Resolve and CapCut to edit videos, while researching algorithms to maximize reach.

NYC Design Factory, New York City, NY | Software Engineer September 2024 – May 2025

• Sponsored by Katko and Aalto to understand their business objectives and translate them into specifications and actionable software solutions, ensuring alignment with customer needs and successful project delivery. 

• Travelled to Katko's factory in Helsinki, Finland, to meet stakeholders, observe manufacturing operations, and conduct prototype testing of katko’s electrical products.

• Cross-functional collaboration using Jira with product UI/UX designers, mechanical, and electrical engineers and researchers; and interfacing both technical and non-technical audiences to optimize features and ensure quality results. 

• Creating a smart industrial switch to collect data using custom API from a WiFi module and developing an application from scratch for data visualization and monitoring platform using React and JavaScript for electrical load breakers, enhancing Katko’s analytics workflow by 80%.

YMCA of Greater New York, New York City, NY | IT Specialist Intern June 2024 – September 2024

• Tracked milestones and developed documentation to support operational efficiency and workflow transparency.

• Built submission, management, and request portals for vendors and staff using the Retool JavaScript framework, integrating with AWS S3 and MySQL. This reduced time spent on vendor requirement processes by 80%.

• Provided technical advisory and problem resolution, ensuring streamlined customer success and escalated help desk support requests across the branches and off-site locations.

• Configured entire company’s printer refresh, including small desktop printers and large Canon photocopiers, and digital signage implementations using Active Directory across 15-20 New York City branches.

Pace University, NY, USA | Teaching Assistant September 2024 – December 2024

• Assisted and mentored 28 undergraduate students Mobile Web Development under Professor Haik Sahakian.

• Graded assignments and provided feedback, ensuring students met course objectives.

• Guided students through lab work, help them to break tasks, troubleshoot code and reinforcing key programming concepts.

• Resolved technical issues related to development environments, ensuring seamless learning experiences.

University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK | Peer-Assisted Study Sessions (PASS) Leader September 2019 – April 2022

• Conducted 4 weekly sessions for software engineering with groups of 15 first, second and foundational-year students and mentoring on how to use agile practices under Lesley May

• Facilitated coursework, lab work, and university life guidance, ensuring students adapted successfully to academic challenges.

• Collected student feedback and provided insights in weekly faculty meetings, helping refine academic support strategies and curriculum. 

• Graded and provided feedback on assignments, assisting students in improving coding practices and technical understanding.

Medication Management Robotics, Cheshire, UK | Systems Developer September 2020 – August 2021

• Maintained 5 critical projects for global healthcare clients, as well as introduced plans for a new revenue stream to the business.

• Developed new computer vision image processing algorithms for global pharma & healthcare clients using OpenCV and Python, for pill identification solutions such as Pouch Inspector, and for 3D printing motors for PouchPack robot.

• Designed, developed, and maintained Connect Companion using Java, JSON and Swing framework, which underpins over £0.5 million in company profits.

• Managed and visualized live streaming data using AWS QuickSight for data analysis, enabling business decisions. 

• Parsed/reformatted CSV/XML/JSON files, integrated systems into LAMP/AWS S3/EC2 cloud services, handled live data, gathered feedback from and resolved issues for clients by troubleshooting and performing test-driven development.

• Deployed and configured UI/UX projects in multiple tech stacks (Java, C#, Javascript with relevant frameworks), utilizing transferable skills, managed deployment scripts, and maintained version control using GitHub and GitBash and identified and tracked business requirements from clients.

EDUCATION

Pace University, Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems

New York, NY, USA

Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science | Concentration: Software Engineering 

GPA: 3.92 /4.00 May 2025

University of Central Lancashire, School of Engineering and Computing                                           

Preston, Lancashire, UK

Bachelor of Science (BSc) with Honors in Software Engineering 

Honors: First-Class                    June 2022

CERTIFICATIONS

DPIIT Startup Certificate         March 2026

Bloomberg Market Concepts April 2025

LEADERSHIP / PROJECTS

AI Translation App – SpeakEz | Scrum Master (React, Agile) December 2024

• Worked in a team of 6 to develop a responsive AI-integrated website using React and Tailwind CSS. Implemented voice input with OpenAI Whisper for speech-to-text recognition and transformers for translation using Hugging Face trained AI model.

Elevation App (Ionic React) | Developer May 2024 

• Designed and created a mobile web app in React that takes live geographical data (elevation/precipitation/etc.) from the surrounding area and suggests clothing and shoes for the user to wear during that day.

HACKATHONS / ACTIVITIES

Meta System Design Experiential Learning Lab, Software Engineer -  April 2024

Game Jams - Ludam Dare 46, UCLan Game Jams, PirateJam 14         - January 2020, April 2020, January 2024