Software Engineer 2 at Zynga
Jan 2025 to Present, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
I’m a software engineer who likes building things that are useful, playful, and a little hard to put down. I spend most of my time turning ideas into interfaces, games, and products that feel good to use - and the rest poking at new tech, reading, or disappearing for coffee.
Jan 2025 to Present, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Jan 2022 to Jan 2025
Jan 2021 to Jan 2022, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Jan 2021 to Jan 2021
Jan 2020 to Jan 2020, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering
Jan 2017 to Jan 2021
T h i s d o m a i n i s f o r u s e i n d o c u m e n t a t i o n e x a m p l e s w i t h o u t n e e d i n g p e r m i s s i o n.T h i s i s n o t a s e r v i c e,a v o i d r e l y i n g o n i t f o r t e s t i n g a n d m o n i t o r i n g p u r p o s e s.
Mumbai Local is an interactive, 8-bit-inspired Mumbai experience presented as a virtual local-train journey. Visitors arrive at CSMT and collect Mumbai-themed items, including vada pav, a train ticket, cutting chai, and a BEST bus.
An essay examining whether gratitude built through comparison with other people’s suffering is actually pity or relief in disguise. The author reflects on moral luck and the risks of turning people into symbols, then considers a more specific, less comparative form of appreciation.
Before my portfolio was a village, it was a road and a black block.
An interactive 3D farm environment featuring a bunny character and a daylight setting. Visitors can explore the scene and receive a greeting from the bunny.
An interactive, pixel-art experience celebrating Mumbai through familiar local landmarks, food, and everyday objects. Visitors can explore the Mumbai Local and collect items in a virtual bag.
An interactive 3D portfolio experience set on a farm, where visitors can explore the environment and interact with a bunny character. The page offers a playful introduction and a way to contact Sakshi Kale.
An essay examining how gratitude can rely on comparison with other people’s suffering, turning appreciation into relief or pity. The author considers moral luck and the risks of treating others as reference points, and argues for a more specific, attentive gratitude that does not depend on someone else having less.
An interactive Three.js portfolio evolved from a sparse road into a navigable village, with successive revisions connecting movement, destination selection, content, and return behavior. The project also added shared progress tracking, repeatable test scenarios, and diagnostics to make performance and visual fidelity assessable across desktop and mobile.