Summary
Shrikkanth Sreedharan is a Director and game-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience blending game design, systems engineering, and team leadership from New Zealand. He leads Astronaut Diaries, driving the development and console approval of the hack-and-slasher Denari while managing a multidisciplinary Agile team and shipping production features like an automated 3D tiling system and combat state machines. Previously he led multiplayer prototype-to-showcase work (Tinker League) and held senior engineering and team-lead roles at Orion Health, where he combined backend architecture, BI analytics, Spark/Elasticsearch, and privacy expertise. He’s practiced servant leadership and Specification by Example training, and has a track record of turning tight deadlines into successful deliveries, including resolving critical privacy issues that preserved major contracts. Comfortable both as a hands-on coder and an architecture-level thinker, he builds systems that reduce repetitive work for artists and designers while enabling complex gameplay and data workflows.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Saint Peter's College
Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), Computer Software Engineering at University of Auckland