Ori Lazar
Chief Executive Officer at Takita Games
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Top SchoolOri Lazar is a game industry leader and CEO of Takita Games with eight years of engineering and leadership experience, blending technical depth with creative product vision. He rose from engine programming at Coconut Lizard to founding and steering Takita, where he empowers a small team to explore bold game design and unconventional play mechanics. Academically grounded with first-class BSc and MSc degrees in Computer Science from the University of Southampton and Newcastle University, he brings rigorous problem-solving to production game engineering. Ori pairs hands-on technical background with strategic leadership, favoring creative freedom and player-centric experiences over rigid process. Known for a playful tech persona (ask him the Hobbyte joke), he balances a developer’s curiosity with the practicalities of running a games studio.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science, 1st Class, MSc, Computer Science, 1st Class at Newcastle UniversityBSc, Computer Science, 1st Class, BSc, Computer Science, 1st Class at University of Southampton
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Github Skills (19)
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react3
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Github contributions (5)
Kney-Delach/OpenGL-Rendering
Oct 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:114 commits, 9 pushes in 1 month
Kney-Delach/Ring-of-Power
Mar 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:188 commits in 9 months
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