Summary
Damon Pidhajecky is a seasoned AR/VR game developer and technology leader with 11 years of experience building immersive experiences, developer teams, and production pipelines from concept to launch. As General Manager at Open Game Protocol and founder of dpid.co, he blends hands-on Unity3D/C# engineering with product leadership across ARKit/ARCore, Oculus/PlayStation/Steam VR, and mobile platforms. He has shipped high-profile interactive projects—like Snow Strike VR and commissioned Google VR pieces—and led engineering on PlayStation VR launch title Headmaster. Damon’s background spans large-scale social game architecture at Zynga to founding multiple studios, giving him rare expertise in both live virtual economies and real-time 3D animation/audio pipelines. Based in Portland, he’s an artist-technologist who mixes UX and game design sensibilities with practical studio ops, and he’s known for translating creative briefs into scalable dev workflows.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Multimedia Art & Animation, B.Sc. Multimedia Art & Animation at The Art Institutes