Kasra Rahimi

Dead Mage

Production Lead

• Led production across Tale of Ronin and the studio's other titles for ~25 developers across six disciplines, translating studio priorities into roadmaps, sprint plans, milestones, dependency tracking, and risk management.
• Ran sprint and milestone planning, reviews, and retrospectives, used velocity and scope-versus-capacity data to set milestone strategy with leadership, and prepared milestone and status reporting for the studio CEO and publishers.
• Owned the studio's AI-assisted development program, evaluated and rolled out the tools, wrote the usage playbook and the AI code-review guide, set rules for where AI may be used, tracked seats and spend, and onboarded new hires through the playbook.
• Hired and onboarded developers with an onboarding process I owned, and managed contractors, outsourcing vendors, and partner teams in Turkey and India (scope, contracts, budgets, deliverables) alongside publisher relationships.
• Owned the QA process (bug triage, QA cadence, build gates), coordinated build deployments and external playtests, and shipped 4 game demos including a three-hour Tale of Ronin vertical slice, making scope calls to protect deadlines without lowering quality.
• Designed and implemented core gameplay systems in Unity/C# on Tale of Ronin (combat revamp and game-economy systems), and extended the Rashomon narrative tool and the cutscene pipeline.

Gerdoo Games

Co-Founder & Product Lead

• Owned product vision, roadmap, launch strategy, and production for Republic of Jungle, a social deduction party game played on one shared screen with phones as controllers, from concept through multi-platform release and live operations, reaching ~200K players.
• Designed and architected the Unity client, its connection to the React mobile controller app, and the real-time backend (RabbitMQ messaging, services on AWS), and built the Unity client for the shared screen.
• Built and led a 10-person remote team across engineering, art, UI/UX, audio, production, and community, managed the engineers directly, shipped the game in multiple languages with localization tooling I built, and ran a streamer and content creator program with a community-feedback loop into the roadmap.
• Defined the team's metrics and built the dashboards (MongoDB/Mixpanel analytics), then iterated on onboarding, the phone-join flow, and re-engagement by shipping changes and measuring them before and after.
• Owned pricing and store strategy and release management (store submissions, content ratings, certification, updates) on Steam, Epic Games Store, Google Play, Discord Activities, Fire TV, and Google TV, plus PlayStation and Xbox certification work on ports, and kept relationships with platform partner managers.
• Managed the studio's seed round budget across burn, headcount, and contractor spend, prepared investor updates and pitch materials, and handled contractor and vendor contracts with outside counsel and an accountant.

Amazon Game Tech / Twitch Prime

Software Development Engineer II

• Built the Gifting feature for the Twitch Prime retention team, letting Prime members gift loot to non-Prime users in chat, owning the React front-end and backend integration.
• Led the migration of Twitch Prime's login to integrate with Prime Video, coordinating with Amazon's London team.

Microsoft

Software Engineer, Windows Services and Delivery

• Debugged kernel-level issues across Windows graphics and driver systems (GDI, DirectX) and backported fixes to earlier Windows versions.
• Built OACR Cop in Codeflow to automate code-compliance reviews on pull requests.

Team Snore

Game Designer & Developer

• Designed and programmed multiple games including In Between, a native Windows Phone title in C# that reached 400,000+ downloads on the Windows Phone Store.

Medrick Game Studios

Game Designer

• Contributed to the design of TeleRun and Tap Tap Galaxy before immigrating to the U.S.

Texas A&M University

B.S. in Computer Science

Published thesis on scene transitions and teleportation in VR (spatial awareness and motion sickness) in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2018, 245 citations.