Avinash Pillay
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Experience

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Allora Labs
Technical Project Management Lead
May 2025 - Aug 2025
● Project Planning & Execution: Define project scopes, milestones, and timelines for AI, Web3, and infrastructure initiatives. ● Cross-Team Coordination: Act as the bridge between engineering, research, and product teams to align development efforts. ● Agile & Scrum Leadership: Implement agile methodologies, run stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives. ● Risk Management: Identify potential roadblocks and proactively work on solutions to keep projects on track. ● Technical Oversight: Understand system architecture, AI models, and blockchain integrations to facilitate effective decision-making. ● Stakeholder Communication: Provide regular updates, reports, and documentation for both technical and non-technical audiences. ● Tooling & Automation: Leverage JIRA, Notion, GitHub Projects, or other tools to streamline workflows and improve productivity.
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Guidepoint
Mobile Apps and Monetization Consultant
Dec 2022 - Aug 2025
- Aiding institutional investors in accurately assessing the mobile apps markets - Helping clients understand various aspects of mobile app monetization
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Koii
Director of Operations
Mar 2025 - Jun 2025
Leading strategic operations in Developer Relations, Product Management, and Project Management to drive growth and innovation at Koii Network. - Developer Relations Leadership: Managing and scaling developer engagement initiatives, fostering community growth, and advocating for developer needs to enhance product adoption. - Product Management: Defining product vision and strategy, leading the product lifecycle from ideation to launch, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure product-market fit. - Project Management Oversight: Coordinating and supervising project timelines, resources, and deliverables to ensure successful execution of strategic initiatives. - Community Engagement: Building and maintaining strong relationships with developers through events, online platforms, and direct interactions to drive community involvement. - Content and Education: Overseeing the creation of technical content, including blog posts, tutorials, videos, and documentation to empower developers using Koii's products. - Event Management: Leading participation in developer events such as meetups, hackathons, and training sessions, including presenting technical sessions and demos. - Feedback and Improvement: Gathering and analyzing feedback to drive continuous product and community improvements, advocating for developer needs with product and engineering teams. - Partnership Development: Building strategic relationships with industry influencers, partners, and open-source contributors to drive joint initiatives and ecosystem growth. - Metrics and Reporting: Tracking and reporting on community engagement, product performance, and project milestones, leveraging insights to refine strategies and drive growth. - Strategic Leadership & Other Duties: Leading cross-functional teams and initiatives, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, and performing other strategic tasks as assigned by the executive team.
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Koii Network
Developer Relations Engineer
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025
Fostering strong relationships with developers, advocating for their needs, and supporting them in utilizing our products effectively. - Community Engagement: Building and maintaining relationships with developers through events, online platforms, and direct interactions. - Content Creation: Producing technical content such as blog posts, tutorials, videos, and documentation to help developers use the company’s products effectively. - Developer Support: Providing technical support and guidance, conduct workshops and webinars, and create resources like sample code and SDKs. - Event Management: Organizing and participating in developer events, including meetups, hackathons, and training sessions. Present technical sessions and demos. - Feedback and Improvement: Gathering and analyzing developer feedback, advocating for their needs with product and engineering teams, and participating in beta testing. - Partnership Development: Building relationships with industry influencers, partners, and open-source contributors to drive joint initiatives. - Metrics and Reporting: Track and report on community engagement and content performance, analyze impact, and refine strategies based on insights. - Internal Collaboration: Advocate for the developer community within the company, collaborate with marketing, sales, and customer success teams, and provide internal training on developer-related topics. - Software development & other duties as assigned by the employer.
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Vigilance Digital Media
Co-Founder
Aug 2020 - May 2025
Working together with my team to create remade realities for our consumers. - A-Z Production on a mobile game (Inner Imp) and a board game (Archetypes: Origins). - Developing professional relationships with contractors, working with contractors to establish quotes/budgets/contracts - Designing games, concepting/whiteboxing, and creating production pipelines - Writing and submitting for: grants from the Nova Scotia Provincial Government, tax credit applications from the Digital Media Tax Credit, grants and loans from the Creative Media Fund, opportunities from InvestNS, grants from NSBI
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Halifax Water
Data and Analytics
May 2024 - Jul 2024
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The Innovation Grid Virtual Assistance And Solutions
Principal Machine Learning Engineer
Nov 2023 - Jul 2024
- Finetune and implement GPT-style chatbots to complement product development process and reduce overhead - Data Analysis: Standard and ML analysis of consumer data, data visualization - Redesign and implement production pipeline - Oversee product development, product management, and product quality - Develop and implement marketing plans and data solutions at all levels - Develop and ship novel product lines
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Gogii Games
Producer
Feb 2022 - undefined NaN
- Run/organize sprints, planning meetings, and retrospectives - Bring products from conceptualization to full release - Creating pipelines and documentation to facilitate the development of iterative products - Estimating scope and deliverables, creating roadmaps and burndown reports - Facilitate effective communication to mitigate blockers and project stalls - Learning the strengths and weaknesses of various team members and applying that knowledge to understand how it will affect estimations and product development
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Ubisoft Halifax
Producer
Jun 2020 - Jan 2021
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Scotiabank
Revolving Credit Specialist
Jun 2018 - Sep 2018