Akash Harish Gudi

Building a five-year growth roadmap for merchandising and IP monetization.

• Recommended a $150M five-year incremental revenue plan (37% modeled IRR) to the Director of Merchandising and Consumer Insights, scoping initiatives across merchandise, partnerships, and park experiences, and securing client intent to implement.
• Built a five-year IP development and monetization playbook from competitor benchmarks, Asia-Pacific IP trend research, and primary consumer survey data.

Rebuilding channel attribution and content strategy for an indie title ahead of launch.

• Grew Steam wishlists 477% (70 to 404) by rebuilding channel traffic attribution across paid social, festivals, and live events, then reallocating 42% of budget into the highest-converting channels.
• Improved engagement 37% across a four-platform organic content program (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, BlueSky) while cutting paid social spend 42%, sustaining reach for a flagship indie title.
• Own Discord community management, PAX West event marketing, and creator outreach — from brand kit to trailer editing.

Modeling monetization strategy for a live-service subscription business.

Designing a cosmetics economy across 50M PlayStation Plus subscribers.

• Projected a 16% LTV lift and 7% incremental revenue at 43% EBIT margin across 50M PlayStation Plus subscribers by designing an AI-personalized cosmetics economy spanning UGC and first-party titles.
• Designed an AI-personalized cosmetics economy spanning UGC and first-party titles for 50M PlayStation Plus subscribers, projecting a 16% LTV lift and 7% incremental revenue.
• Sized growth opportunity across 3 subscriber segments by modeling LTV against third-party UGC spend benchmarks, presenting findings to the VP of Innovation Strategy.
• Modeled player LTV against UGC spend benchmarks across 3 subscriber segments to size a live-service monetization opportunity, presenting to the VP of Innovation Strategy.

Turning player data into marketing strategy for a student-built PvP card battler.

• Apply audience segmentation and TAM analysis to position a mobile-first, real-time PvP card battler ahead of launch.
• Partner with game designers to translate game health metrics into actionable marketing strategy.

Turning telemetry into product decisions that drove revenue and reliability at scale.

Shipping features and owning incidents for a mass-market consumer app serving millions daily.

• Drove $1.4M in annualized revenue by shipping four rider and driver features, led by Destination Shortcuts and Multi-stop Rides, after telemetry exposed cross-platform gaps blocking high-intent bookings.
• Shipped four features — including Destination Shortcuts and Multi-stop Rides — driving $1.4M in annualized revenue after telemetry surfaced friction blocking high-intent mobile bookings.
• Averted $300K in revenue loss across 4 major global outages as Incident Commander, directing cross-functional response and authoring a post-mortem process adopted org-wide.
• Served as Incident Commander across 4 major outages, averting $300K in revenue loss and authoring the live-ops post-mortem process adopted org-wide.
• Enabled 18 marketing experiments per quarter by building a content management and A/B testing layer for a growth platform serving 1.5M daily users, cutting experiment setup from 1 day to 4 hours.
• Built the A/B testing and content layer powering growth experiments for 1.5M daily users, cutting setup time from a day to 4 hours and unlocking 18 tests per quarter.

Leading delivery and building automation that cuts cost and unlocks throughput.

• Delivered a $600K engagement for a Fortune 500 CPG client one month ahead of schedule, leading a 5-person cross-functional team across 3 locations to build a data access management platform.
• Eliminated $150K in annual labor cost by architecting an AI workflow orchestrator that raised ticket throughput 30% for 24 IT technicians, within existing governance constraints.

Applying ML to safety-critical predictions and supply chain visibility.

• Engineered a predictive model achieving 95% accuracy, cutting computation time by 30%.
• Developed executive dashboards tracking Supply Chain and Supplier Compliance KPIs.