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Akash
Harish Gudi

MBA Candidate @ USC Marshall | Marketing & Biz Dev @ Glass Arcade Studios | Ex-Uber Software Engineer

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Experience

Marketing & Business Development Intern

Glass Arcade Studios — Los Angeles, CA

JAN 2026 — PRESENT

  • Handling social media campaign and Discord community for the launch of "Dream Runner", an Indie precision platformer.
  • Creating pitch decks, handling publisher relationships, and planning GTM launch strategy to optimize Wishlist conversion.

Marketing, Advanced Games Project

USC Games — Los Angeles, CA

SEP 2025 — PRESENT

  • Leveraging audience segmentation and TAM analysis for a mobile-first real-time PvP Card Battler.
  • Collaborating with Game Designers to translate game health metrics into actionable marketing strategies.

Software Engineer II

Uber Technologies — Hyderabad, India

SEP 2024 — JUN 2025

  • Analyzed engagement data from 200,000+ daily users to identify product opportunities, leading to 7% conversion increase.
  • Engineered website functionality to improve First Trip User Experience, projected to generate $1M annualized revenue lift.

Imagineer (Rotational Program)

Fractal Analytics Pvt. Ltd. — Bangalore, India

SEP 2022 — SEP 2024

  • Led a cross-functional team to build a Data Marketplace, conducting effort estimation and sprint planning.
  • Designed and deployed interactive Dashboards (React/Django) for executive leadership.

Occupant Safety Intern — Machine Learning

Mercedes Benz R&D India — Bangalore, India

AUG 2021 — JUL 2022

  • Engineered a predictive model achieving 95% accuracy, resulting in a 30% reduction in computation time.
  • Developed executive dashboards to track Supply Chain and Supplier Compliance KPIs.

Education

University of Southern California

MBA (STEM) — Marshall School of Business

MAY 2027

VP of Tech @ MGSA | AVP Marketing @ MIGA

BITS Pilani

B.E. Mechanical Engineering (Honors)

AUG 2022

Head of Dept @ Sponsorship & Marketing

Skills & Tech

Analysis

Tableau, Looker, PowerBI, A/B Testing, Cohort Analysis, Funnel Analysis

Analytics

Python (Pandas, NumPy, Keras, Tensorflow, SciKit), SQL, M3QL, MongoDB

Productivity

Notion, JIRA, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Word