Owais Akhtar
Product Manager at Snowman
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolOwais Akhtar is a product manager with nine years of experience and a five-year focus on games and interactive products for platforms including Netflix, Apple Vision Pro, Steam, and consoles. He blends game production, business strategy, and go-to-market planning to align narrative, art, scope, and timelines so projects launch with impact—most recently leading cross-discipline teams at Snowman and shipping hits that reached 170K+ players in a month. Comfortable managing external partners, playtesting programs, and marketing campaigns, he has a track record of turning indie-title craftsmanship into multi-platform releases and editorial acclaim. His background in design and brand management informs a user-first approach and attention to storefront/QA logistics that many PMs overlook. Based in Toronto, he brings hands-on production experience from studio launches to apparel e-commerce, and a playful creative mindset hinted at by his GitHub motto: "C'est en faisant n'importe quoi qu'on devient n'importe qui."
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.), Marketing/Marketing Management, General, Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.), Marketing/Marketing Management, General at Toronto Metropolitan University
English, Urdu, Hindi
Github Skills (67)
javascript9
render9
react9
frontend9
pattern8
rendering8
opengl8
metal8
declarative8
opengl-es8
user-interface8
facebook8
layout-engine8
layout8
android8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
FireBanana/SkiaCore
Nov 2020 - Apr 2022
SkiaCore is a library that uses OpenGL to render graphics powered by the Skia engine. It is currently set-up for Windows but will be expanded further in the future to support multiple platforms. The project uses Facebook's Yoga layout engine to enable styling in a convenient CSS style pattern.
Contributions:41 commits, 8 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 5 months
renderwindowsskiacsslayout
FireBanana/MiniEngine
Apr 2022 - Feb 2025
MiniEngine - A Simple OpenGL Engine
Contributions:8 PRs, 144 pushes, 14 branches in 2 years 9 months
openglgame-engineopengl3
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