Adi Zhavo
Co-Founder & CEO at Tornado Bear
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAdi Zhavo is a game-focused founder and product-driven engineer with 10 years of experience building hits across mobile and PC, currently leading Tornado Bear as Co-Founder & CEO. He excels at rapid prototyping and early core development, turning prototypes into revenue-driving features like "Tap to Build" that increased IAP and ad metrics at Popcore. Adi has a track record of solo-ship success—Piratopia reached 150K+ Steam downloads and his self-published work amassed 1M+ downloads with visibility to 10M+ viewers on Twitch and YouTube. At Gram Games he scaled projects from prototype to live service, creating Pirate Evolution (1M+ installs) and managing teams of up to 40 while owning core mechanics, economy and monetization. Based in London with a mechatronics background, he blends hands-on development, design sensibility and community-first promotion to accelerate hybrid-casual and mid-core game growth. An avid gamer by nature, he still prefers being hands-on in the early creative stages where business needs and player engagement meet.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Mechatronics, Bachelor’s Degree Mechatronics at Polytechnic University of Tirana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Albanian, Italian, English
Github Skills (53)
entity-component10
code-generation10
tdd10
extension-methods10
csharp10
entity-component-system10
entity10
unity3d10
csharp-code9
design-patterns9
game-development9
game-engine8
composition7
steamworks7
udp7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
adizhavo/ECS_Cpp
Oct 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:44 commits, 61 PRs, 88 pushes in 7 months
ecscompositionentityentity-componentnew-write
adizhavo/UI-Tween
Aug 2016 - May 2019
Refactored and enhanced version of UI Tween library in Unity3D
Contributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 19 pushes in 2 years 9 months
unity3drefactoredunitytween
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