Ivan Yakymchak
Marketing Developer Lead at Voodoo
Greater Paris Metropolitan Region France
Summary
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Top SchoolIvan Yakymchak is a Marketing Developer Lead and Unity gameplay programmer with 8 years of experience building internal tooling, shipping marketing-driven game variants, and mentoring cross-functional teams across top mobile studios. Based in Greater Paris, he has led creative developer teams at Homa and Voodoo to streamline production workflows, design reusable gameplay features, and rapidly iterate ad-ready game builds. His background spans hands-on Unity editor tool development, data-driven ad optimization, and operational roles at Blizzard where he automated reporting and supported large esports programs—an unusual blend of creative coding and process engineering. Ivan is known for turning prototype ideas into repeatable components for live titles and for elevating team capability through mentorship and hiring. He lives and breathes video games, pairing a visual arts education with pragmatic software delivery to make playful, measurable experiences.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Visual and Performing Arts, Bachelor's degree, Visual and Performing Arts at Università Iuav di VeneziaITTT "Giuseppe Mazzotti"
Italian, Russian, English, Spanish, French, German, Ukrainian
Github Skills (11)
engine10
cpp10
3d-engine10
hero10
directx10
game-engine9
cmake9
game-development8
react7
viewer3
image-viewer3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Yakvi/handmade-hero-notes
Aug 2020 - Sep 2022
Handmade Hero Annotated
Contributions:3 reviews, 120 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 2 months
handmadereactheroannotated
Yakvi/Qsetup
Sep 2019 - Aug 2020
Contributions:2 releases, 13 commits, 7 pushes in 11 months
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