Avi Romanoff
Founder & CEO at Magic Circle
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAvi Romanoff is a founder and CEO with 15 years of experience building consumer-facing products and games, currently leading Magic Circle, an AI-powered social games studio with over 1M players. He blends product leadership from roles at Google (Stadia, Maps) with deep hands-on engineering and design roots from early work at Apple and as a lead developer on a widely downloaded open-source desktop OS. As an indie developer and creator he understands virality and community—he built Truffle Hogs and grew 200K+ TikTok followers while shipping mobile games. Avi’s background in cognitive science and HCI from Carnegie Mellon informs his focus on delightful, playable experiences that scale. He favors a maker-first ethos captured by his GitHub motto “make all, not war,” pairing rapid prototyping with strategic product vision. Based in California, he combines startup grit with platform-scale product experience to turn playful AI ideas into mass-market experiences.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Summer School Computer Science, Summer School Computer Science at Harvard UniversityBachelor's degree Cognitive Science and Human-Computer Interaction, Bachelor's degree Cognitive Science and Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (200)
vala10
switchboard10
deno-deploy10
service-worker10
firefox10
serializer10
php10
controller10
pantheon10
appcenter10
cloudflare-workers10
chrome10
router10
thread10
npm10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
aroman/difference-engine
Jan 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
AEPi-AK/aepi.rocks
Aug 2016 - Oct 2018
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Contributions:40 commits, 3 PRs, 41 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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