Mid-Senior Software Engineer & Team Lead · Kathmandu, Nepal (UTC+5:45) · Open to remote

Pawan Sharma

Software engineer building game platforms and multiplayer systems.

I architect and ship live mobile platforms - currently leading Nova, a white-label multi-game runtime that ships as three operator brands from one codebase, hosting 30+ slot titles and 9 first-party multiplayer games on Unity, NGO, and Edgegap.

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  1. 2026 Browser · Public release

    Doodle Knights - CrazyGames release

    A Unity 6 game published on CrazyGames in October 2026. Draw a vehicle, connect its wheels to your knight, and joust across the arena to knock your rival off their ride. Each shape changes how the vehicle handles, with upgrades and cosmetic unlocks between battles. Play in the browser on desktop, mobile, or tablet using mouse or touch controls.

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  2. 2025 - present Platform

    Nova

    A white-label multi-game platform under a 75 MB ceiling, shipping as three operator brands (Nova, JUWA Vault, Game Vault) from one codebase via a per-brand BrandConfig resolved at boot. Hosts 30+ slot titles and 9 multiplayer games via Unity Addressables and a plugin architecture (BaseSlotController + ISlotSocketService); cross-platform multiplayer via NGO with Unity Transport on native and WebSocket on WebGL; orchestration on Edgegap after Unity deprecated DGS.

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  3. 2025 - present Multiplayer

    Real-time multiplayer suite

    Nine first-party multiplayer games shipped on the Nova runtime. Server-authoritative state, reconnection handling for mobile networks, and parity across native & WebGL clients on a single NGO codebase.

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  4. 2025 Mobile

    SPLIT - Google Play release

    A hyper-casual mobile title shipped to Google Play. Ad mediation via IronSource LevelPlay, a remove-ads IAP through Google Play Billing, the Play SDK suite (Games, Review, Core), and the SDK reconciliation work that decides whether a build pipeline takes 5 minutes or 5 hours.

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I'm a software engineer based in Kathmandu, working on game platforms and real-time systems at Garud Lab. Most of my time goes into Nova - the runtime that hosts every title we ship - and the backend, asset pipeline, and netcode that make it work.

I like problems that involve a tight constraint and a long-lived system. The 75 MB install cap on Nova is what made the architecture interesting; turning it white-label - three operator brands from one codebase - and holding multiplayer parity between native and WebGL is what kept it interesting.

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