He is most known for his four-and-a-half-year tenure as Counter Logic Gaming's top laner from November 2014 to May 2019, a time during which CLG and ZionSpartan made both the 2015 World Championship and the 2016 World Championship.

[4][5] Darshan was elected the inaugural president of the LCS Players Association in 2018, a loose union-like advocacy organization that represents the interests of contracted players in the LCS, and held that that position until 2022 or 2023.

[7][8][9] He resided in Poway, California, before joining professional esports.

This was branded by the NALCS in a video titled "Even his teacher called him ZionSpartan.

"[10] Upadhyaya announced on Twitter in November 2023 that he was retiring from eSports.