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 (41)
pbr10
webgl10
vulkan10
ios10
3d-graphics10
gltf10
windows10
physically-based-rendering10
linux10
metal10
android10
macos10
opengl-es10
opengl10
react9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
FireBanana/MiniEngine
Apr 2022 - Feb 2026
MiniEngine - A Simple OpenGL Engine
Contributions:8 PRs, 152 pushes, 14 branches in 3 years 10 months
opengl
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
cssgraphiclayout-engineopenglskia
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