bansal was born in chandigarh, india, on august 5, 1981. his father is a business man and mother is a homemaker. bansal attended indian institute of technology delhi and graduated as a computer science engineer in 2005. during the course of his education, bansal had considered giving up his engineering seat to pursue a career in gaming. age of empires and quake iii arena are the games that he was playing in his early life. after graduation, bansal worked at techspan for a few months and later in 2006 he joined amazon web services as a senior software engineer. in 2007, bansal quit amazon to start his own venture.