Dan Wakefield
Audio Director & Co-Founder at Dan Wakefield Sound Design
Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Wakefield is an experienced audio director, composer, and co-founder with over eight years formally documented experience and two decades of hands-on work in game audio and music production. Based in Norway, he co-founded Rubarb AS and has led audio, creative and business efforts across multiple indie studios including Antagonist and Corvid Studio while running his own sound design studio servicing clients like Kahoot!, Red Bull, NRK and Panasonic. He combines technical expertise in Wwise implementation with broad creative skills—music composition, sound design, audio implementation and trailer/web production—allowing him to shepherd projects from concept to polished release. Beyond audio, Dan has repeatedly taken on CEO and producer responsibilities, handling finance, marketing and business development for small teams. He also operates as a producer and sound engineer through Trackwriters, reflecting a background that spans commercial music, games and broadcast. His career blends entrepreneurial grit with a rare mix of technical audio implementation and executive leadership in the indie games space.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
National Diploma, Music Performance and Production, Distinction Overall, National Diploma, Music Performance and Production, Distinction Overall at North Warwickshire Arts CollegeWwise Audio Design and Implementation, Wwise Audio Design and Implementation at School of Video Game Audio
English, NorwegianGithub contributions (1)
mandarinx/Deflector
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:26 commits, 20 pushes in 2 months
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