Dan Maas
Associate Production Director, Overwatch 2
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Maas is an associate production director at Blizzard with 20 years of experience shipping AAA games and leading cross-disciplinary teams on titles like Overwatch and The Outer Worlds. With a magna cum laude double major in Computer Science and Mathematics, he blends technical depth—contributing to the Linux kernel and open-source projects—with a product and production mindset honed at Blizzard, Obsidian, IGN, and Oracle. He excels at mentoring teams, improving processes, and spanning disciplines from systems engineering and procedural world-building to narrative-driven design. Notably, he also created Emmy Award–winning computer animation used by NASA and Disney, reflecting a rare combination of creative storytelling and engineering rigor. Based in Irvine, he is motivated by immersive simulated worlds that encourage exploration, collaboration, and difficult player choices.
20 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bloomington Jefferson High SchoolUniversity of California, Irvine
Github Skills (178)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
spinpunch/battlehouse-mattermost
Aug 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:51 pushes, 5 branches, 8 tags in 1 year 6 months
golangreactslackmattermostslack-alternative
coreplane/mattermost-webapp
Sep 2018 - Jul 2019
Webapp of Mattermost server: https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server
Contributions:19 pushes, 13 branches, 1 tag in 9 months
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