Sajid Shaik / SAH-jid SHAKE /
Head of Engineering at Backgammon Galaxy and co-founder of Rogue Treasure. 10+ years uniting design, engineering and product.
Shipped at
Backgammon Galaxy
Circle of Games
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Results that compound.
- Users built from zero
- 100K+Grew Circle of Games, a Web3 casual gaming platform, as its founding Head of Engineering.
- Funding secured
- $1MHelped Circle of Games raise from investors including Nazara and Hedera.
- Faster app performance
- 50%After rebuilding Backgammon Galaxy on Flutter in one quarter.
- Crash-free stability
- 99.9%From the same rebuild, with higher retention and faster releases.
Not just a developer. I care how a product looks, feels and flows as much as how it's built.
Design
A keen eye for UI and UX. Every screen, interaction and detail is part of the product.
Engineering
Architecture that scales, and teams that ship quickly without breaking what works.
Product
Experiences people come back to, shaped around retention, not just features.
I bring design, development and product departments into one working rhythm, so what ships feels coherent from the first sketch to the final release.
From legacy stacks to Flutter.
I help companies leave aging tech behind. I move teams from older frameworks to Flutter, re-architect legacy products for scale, and leave them with one modern codebase that ships faster.
- Backgammon Galaxy
- Circle of Games
- Junglee Games
- PlaySimple Games
The full Backgammon Galaxy rebuild, from architecture to release. 50% faster, 99.9% crash-free.
Experience
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- Head of EngineeringJun 2026 to now
- Principal EngineerJun 2025 to Jun 2026
Rebuilt a legacy backgammon platform as a modern Flutter app in a single quarter, designing the architecture from the ground up. The result was 50% faster performance, 99.9% crash-free stability, higher retention and quicker feature delivery.
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- Head of Engineering, founding memberApr 2024 to May 2025
- Principal EngineerJun 2022 to Apr 2024
Built a Web3 casual multi-game app from zero to 100K+ engaged users, owning product, technology and go-to-market. Helped secure $1M in funding from investors including Nazara and Hedera. Games included Rummy, Ludo, Chess, Callbreak and Fantasy Cricket.
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- SDE IIIJan 2022 to May 2022
- SDE IIJan 2020 to Dec 2021
Core engineer on the Howzat app at one of India's leading skill-gaming companies, with a 140M+ user base. Built and iterated real-money MVPs including Solitaire, Carrom, Rummy and Poker, and wrote the team's approach to automating logic validation for Unity multiplayer card games.
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- Software EngineerApr 2018 to Dec 2019
Core engineering team behind Word Wars at a casual word-game pioneer with 75M+ users, building and scaling features to drive engagement and retention.
Where it started
2016 to 2018: VR shooter games at Absentia, a language-learning app at Multibhashi, and edtech and board games at PrepMySkills and Ken Interactive.
Products I've built
Games and apps I've engineered, led and shipped, from real-money hits to casual favourites.
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Backgammon Galaxy
Global backgammon with AI practice and live matches, rebuilt on Flutter.
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Circle of Games
Web3 multi-game app: Rummy, Ludo, Chess, Callbreak and Fantasy Cricket.
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Howzat
Fantasy sports and skill gaming, built in the core engineering team.
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Junglee Rummy
Real-money rummy, Junglee's flagship card game.
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Carrom Stars
Real-time multiplayer carrom, played in 3D.
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Solitaire Gold
Classic solitaire, rebuilt for competitive play.
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Word Wars
Social word board game from a studio with 75M+ players.
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Plus my own studio
NumNull and As I Wait, designed and built from scratch.
See them
Plus many more proprietary internal and external tools and services, built behind closed doors.
AI keeps getting better. People still matter.
Systems that put AI to work
I build the infrastructure and architecture that put AI's best abilities to work, while keeping every system readable and understandable to humans.
Teams that grow with it
I train engineers, designers and product teams to upskill alongside AI, so people grow with the tools instead of falling behind them.
Now building
Rogue Treasure
A product studio I co-founded, built on simple ideas, uncompromising quality and products people come back to. Two are live.
roguetreasure.comLet's build what's next.
Open to conversations with investors, founders and partners building games and apps.
shaiksajid.in@gmail.com Sajid Shaik on LinkedIn