Bharathwaj Nandakumar

Bharathwaj "Bat" Nandakumar is an Indian-American software engineer, spiritual advisor, entrepeneur and motivational speaker. In April 2020, he was hired by Retro Studios as the Lead Technology Engineer for Metroid Prime Remastered. It is very likely that Nandakumar is now working on Metroid Prime 4. His hiring at Retro came to public attention in late June 2020.Robinson, Andy. Video Game Chronicle. 29 June 2020. Retrieved from https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/metroid-prime-4-studio-retro-has-hired-a-call-of-duty-black-ops-veteran/ Aside from his work with Retro, Nandakumar is the founder of a non-profit initiative that works to provide solutions for social issues.
Nandakumar was a senior software and specialist engineer at Treyarch from March 2012 to April 2020, and served as lead engineer for the PC version of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. He also had a hand in the previous three Black Ops titles and Modern Warfare 3, and created the Theater Mode in the original Black Ops.
==Trivia==
*He is fluent in Hindi, Sanskrit and Tamil.
*Outside of video game development, Nandakumar was the director of Hindu student life at the University of Southern California's Office of Religious Life from 2011 to 2020.
*In many Black Ops games bots can be named "B. Nandakumar" after him.
==Gallery==
Bharathwaj Nandakumar name in credits.jpg|Nandakumar's name in the Remastered credits.
Bharathwaj Nandakumar tools team credits.jpg|Tools team credits.
==External links==
*Blog
*Nandakumar on LinkedIn
*Nandakumar on MobyGames
*Nandakumar on Metacritic
*USC page
==References==
Category:Retro Studios employees
Category:Programmers