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Five years of running a grassroots community for Russian game developers — 50+ meet-ups across St. Petersburg, Moscow, Novosibirsk, and Perm; first game-studies track at DEVGAMM; and what community organising actually costs.
Switching 20+ people across three teams at IT Park from Kanban to Scrum — what broke in the first sprint, what we kept from Kanban, and why release cadence doubled.
The business case for separating Edvice from its parent analytics company — market fit, operating autonomy, and the cap-table mechanics of a strategic spin-off.
Relocating staff, rebuilding the business plan from scratch, and keeping an EdTech company alive under cross-border pressure. Decisions taken in the first three weeks and what actually held up.
Community organisation (2015–2020) uniting Russian game developers. 50+ meet-ups across four cities, first game-studies track at DEVGAMM, first gamedev track at GEEK PICNIC, represented Russian gamedev at Gaming Istanbul.
Mobile-games studio I founded (2014–2018). Shipped ESportable (3rd, DevGAMM "Best New Game", 2016) and Lapka (shortlisted, DevGAMM "Best Indie", 2015), plus several NDA outsource projects.
Chief Product Officer at Edvice — from post-investment idea to revenue-generating business. Xsolla-accelerator B2B contract, team relocation and replan through the war in Ukraine.