Max Yahontov
Co-Founder And CTO at Phygital Games
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Yahontov is a serial founder and technology leader with 13 years of engineering experience, currently serving as Co-Founder and CTO of Phygital Games and Hello Park while leading Phygitech as CEO. He builds immersive, cutting-edge multimedia experiences and runs a franchise of interactive parks under the Phygi.tech umbrella, blending hardware, real-time software, and spatial design. His background includes engineering leadership at Yandex, where he managed teams and scaled production systems, and a formal grounding in Interactive Media Design from the British Higher School of Art and Design. Max combines product-focused entrepreneurship with hands-on technical delivery, often bridging creative art direction and low-latency systems engineering. Based in Dubai, he’s known for turning novel experiential concepts into operational venues and repeatable franchises. An operator at heart, he balances strategic vision with day-to-day technical problem solving to ship immersive experiences to market.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Interactive Media Design, Diploma, Interactive Media Design at British Higher School of Art and Design
English, German
Github Skills (3)
opensoundcontrol3
javascript2
nodejs2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
maxyahontov/hello-computer.github.com
May 2013 - Jun 2013
Contributions:10 commits in 15 days
dehimer/gazava
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:31 pushes in 8 days
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