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GDC Festival of Gaming
March 1-5, 2027
Moscone CenterSan Francisco, CA
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Ashwin Vasan, Engineering Manager, Pokémon GO, Scopely

Ashwin Vasan is an Engineering Manager on Pokémon GO, focused on the systems and tools behind large-scale live gameplay. Since joining the team in 2021, he has helped increase the capacity of a single battle instance from hundreds to thousands of concurrent players and led a multi-region rollout of real-time battle infrastructure serving one million requests per second. Before working on games, Ashwin built infrastructure at AWS for major live sports streams, including the Super Bowl and English Premier League. He holds a master's degree in computer science from the University of Colorado Boulder.

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