Résumé

Vivek Indlebele Narasimha Prasad

Founder, CTO, and product engineer

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Summary

Hands-on founder and software engineer building production systems across mobile, backend, payments, analytics, and release engineering. Co-founded two startups, scaled GameStock past 20K users, and maintains React Native packages with 16K+ cumulative npm downloads.

Experience

GameStock

Founder and CTO

Aug 2025 — PresentSan Francisco, CA

Fantasy stock and crypto tournament platform; raised a $2M pre-seed round led by Peak XV Partners.

  • Led product and engineering as GameStock grew past 20K users and 10.6K monthly active users, earning a 4.8/5 Google Play rating across 440+ reviews.
  • Built tournament and live market systems behind 150K+ tracked tournament joins; reduced median transaction broadcast latency from 2.95 seconds to 0.9 seconds.
  • Designed wallet and payment infrastructure supporting 2K+ transacting users and 16K+ completed payment events across funding, escrow, reconciliation, refunds, and payouts.
  • Modernized mobile architecture across data, styling, and bundle delivery; cut Hermes bytecode 16%, module output 27%, and boot modules from 9,285 to 6,640.
  • Established analytics and release engineering with PostHog, AppsFlyer, Sentry, automated native and backend deployments, and 18 critical E2E flows; recent CI averaged 2.5 minutes with 95%+ success across 1K+ monthly runs.

Zen Shuttles

Founder and CTO

May 2022 — Dec 2023Tempe, AZ

Campus ride-pooling startup serving Arizona State University; reached break-even within 15 months, secured $31K across four ASU venture awards, and won first place at the ASU Tech Devils Pitch Showcase.

  • Built and launched rider and driver mobile apps plus a real-time operations dashboard using React Native, React, Firebase, Stripe, and Google Cloud.
  • Designed the dispatch and scheduling engine to group nearby demand, enforce vehicle capacity, and deliver routes and ETAs to drivers in real time.
  • Reduced mapping API usage through autocomplete caching, session tokens, and removal of redundant route requests; also shipped memberships, payments, referrals, promotions, push messaging, and operating analytics.

Selected open source

Expo OneSignal Live Activities

Automates the complete native Live Activity setup for Expo and OneSignal—from targets and entitlements to push-to-start tokens and widget scaffolding.

10K+ npm downloads

Education

M.S. in Computer Science

Arizona State University

Jan 2025 — Dec 2025 · GPA 4.0/4.0

B.S. in Computer Science

Arizona State University

2021 — Dec 2024 · GPA 4.0/4.0

Technical skills

languages

TypeScript, JavaScript, Swift, Kotlin, Python, SQL

product

React Native, Expo, React, TanStack, Node.js, Bun, Convex, Firebase

systems

Stripe, Google Cloud, PostHog, AppsFlyer, Sentry, GitHub Actions, EAS