Summary
Eric Koziel is a product and game systems leader with nine years of experience designing economies, combat systems, and production pipelines for RPGs and new IPs, now directing product at Azra Games. He combines rigorous technical roots—from an MS in Cyber Operations and a decade-plus at MIT Lincoln Laboratory developing side-channel and hardware security techniques—with hands-on game design, feature engineering, and release planning. A serial founder and operator, he runs a consultancy promoting speedrunning and a crowdfunding challenge marketplace, blending community-driven product thinking with technical innovation. Known as a former competitive SSBM player and speedrunner, he brings player-first empathy and emergent gameplay expertise to balance long-term engagement and monetization.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BSCPE, Computer Engineering, BSCPE, Computer Engineering at Ohio Northern University
MS, Cyber Operations, Computer Engineering, MS, Cyber Operations, Computer Engineering at Air Force Institute of Technology
Japanese, French, English