Who am I?
My name is Savelii, full-stack problem solver with more than 7 years of experience in Game Production
As for my title... I’ve pursued diverse roles to build a toolkit for solving end-to-end business challenges, besides that I've rarely seen two companies that had the same expectations for the same role, and sometimes even at the same company expectations mutate over time. That's why instead of claiming myself to be explicitly roleName I focus on functions I perform, value I bring to the table and most importantly getting job done.
I excel at bridging the gap between technical teams and stakeholders to deliver successful and impactful products via market analysis, user research designing requirements, crafting business pipelines and directly overseeing the team. Despite being able to cover multiple roles at once, I understand the importance of collaboration, so no worries, I won't trespass on someone else's territory.
I excel at bridging the gap between technical teams and stakeholders to deliver successful and impactful
products via market analysis, user research designing requirements, crafting business pipelines and directly overseeing the team.
Despite being able to cover multiple roles at once, I understand the importance of collaboration, so
no worries, I won't trespass on someone else's territory.My main area of expertise is in the tech side of game development, but I'm no stranger to fields such as Game Design, Art, AI, Martech and Web3.
Hats I wear
As a Technical Producer, I ensure that project runs smoothly by acting as the liaison between the tech and creative groups. You can expect:
- 100% allignment of team's objectives with the project's goals
- short-term and long-term plans that come true
- stakeholders that are always in the loop and happy with the progress
- workflows and pipelines are crafted for the particular team and project's development stage
- hands-on involvement in processes be it game certification, testing or monitoring of technical metrics
Things I am proud of
- Launched the Esports classes program at ITMO Universtiy answering COVID-19 ➞ The program attracted 70% of students; got 2.5 million coverage in media
- Introduced process analysis at Saber by utilizing Jira Calendar, PowerBI and a dozen of hand-crafted scripts ➞ -20% meeting time; +10% task completion rate
- Adressed growth of Game Services department at Saber by crafting hybrid pipeline ➞ teams feel empowered; resources are in check; +20% team efficency
- Figured out a strategy for SARD to grow and become something more than just a .dll on users' PC ➞ -50% integration time; +30% anti-cheat effectiveness Personal
- Led a guild in WOW at 14 y.o. pretending to be 20 ➞ thanks god now I have enough experience to not pretend
- Has been a competitive player in Hearthstone, participated at tournaments such as WESG and Hearthstone Masters Tour ➞ always up for a good challenge
- Hit Master at TFT after playing for 3 months ➞ if this doesn't make you believe I am good at strategy I give up
Games I worked on
Work experience
- Led the online features team in development of multiplayer functionality for the game → ensured on-time release of multiplayer within scope and quality targets
- Embedded automation and AI tooling on multiple stages of pipeline (localization, workflows, analytics) → Increased feature development speed by 15% without loss of quality
- Developed and optimized existing localization tooling for the project from automating string gathering in Unreal Engine to an AI draft translation and duplication detection → Reduced initial localization costs by 60% against estimates. Achieved a fully automated pipeline across all stages (including outsourcing translation to AI), lowering ongoing operational costs to a negligible level
- Owned and maintained backlogs for multiple units: prioritisation, dependency resolution, while ensuring milestones are hit
Education
Analytics based Product Management
GoPractice, Inc
Master of Engineering: Robotics, Control system and Artificial Intelligence
ITMO University
Bachelor's degree: Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering
ITMO University
Contact me
- Join a team on a permanent basis
- Step up as a consultunt and help you solve your problems
- Chit-chat about games, development or tech in general