Darren Andrade

About Darren Andrade

Sports, Entertainment, Gaming and Technology Industry Professional, Scrum Product Owner Certified and Google Project Management executive with over a decade of expertise spanning Sports, Technology, Gaming and iGaming domains. Adept at leading and orchestrating specialized Global Teams. Proficient in Agile methodologies while consistently meeting quality standards and exceeding project milestones. Demonstrated success with an Average team rating of 3.78/4 and recognition as a three time ‘Team of the Semester’ recipient. Distinguished as Ubisoft’s CSR Ambassador. I have a strong background in marketing, e-business, achieving high ROI service ratings, and developing and implementing new products, features and tools for B2B, Global Productions and QC. I have also supported online gaming operations, marketing and customer support across multiple markets in Africa and Asia, providing backbone support services, product and technical feedback, risk management, and account management. I am passionate about creating engaging and immersive experiences that delight and inspire customers and stakeholders.

Experience

1. Senior Product Manager

   Si Sportz Interactive

   Jun 2024 — Present · Mumbai, IN

   SIEGE Game Engine• Created the product vision for a whitelabel Fantasy Sports Engine, led the project and took it from 0 to 1 with a cross functional team.• Reduced time and effort taken to deploy a fantasy game from 1-4 months to 10 days, and from 9 to 2 resources for both backend and frontend using the SIEGE engine and design system respectively.• Setup personalized demos in 3 working days for each of the following and garnered interest from Swiss Basketball League, Spanish Basketball League, Eredivisie, FIBA, etc for deployment of the same in their 2026 season.Auto-Scoring Using AI/ML• Implemented capture of Basic and Advanced scoring using multiple Artificial Intelligence, Computer vision and Machine Learning algorithms to extract 80 data points from a Live Football and Cricket broadcast stream.• Technologies used : OpenCV2, ISNet, MMPose, RTMO (Real-Time Multi Object Tracking), PaddleOCR, Yolov8.• Reduced number of manual scorers required in Data & Scoring team with model accuracy exceeding 85% threshold and reduced latency using parallel processing.• Potential clients include Data aggregators, Federations, Leagues, Teams and Coaches.Auto-Commentary Using AI/ML• Recreated live sports commentary for Google, Microsoft, Dream11, Fancode using VLMs, OpenAI and the manual commentary legacy data generated for aforementioned brands by Sportz Interactive.• Reduced manual commentators to 1 and increased accuracy of outputs to 86%.

Education

• Don Bosco Institute Of Technology

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE

  2007 — 2012

• Welingkar Institute of Management

  PGDM eBiz

  2013 — 2015

Skills

• Social Media Marketing
• Java
• Microsoft Word
• C
• Research
• Powerpoint
• Social Games
• Mobile Games
• C++
• Html