Marek Ventur

Senior Developer / Project Manager / Game Producer

I have worked for different companies and industries, such as tech giant IBM and music industry disruptor Last.fm. At the moment I'm creating games for gambling startup Gamevy.

I combine full stack tech experience with the skills to manage and deliver successful projects.

My current focus is on creating innovative real money games - from slots with a twist to completely new concepts.

Please visit marekventur.com for a selection of projects and games I've worked on.

Skills

Game Development: Concept, prototype, pay table, simulation
Project Management: Agile methodologies, team and client communication
UX: Wire framing, user flow, A/B testing
Frontend Development: HTML5 Game Development, JS, CSS, PIXI.js
Backend Development: Node.js, Python, Java, PHP
Operations: Server administration, CI, scaling, automation, monitoring
Data analysis: Reporting, BI, web analytics
Bilingual: English, German

Employment history

Gamevy (Aug 2013 - Present), London

Senior Developer and Game Producer

As the first non-founder to join Gamevy I've worked on game design, HTML5 frontends, backend infrastructure and operations

Developing game concepts for the majority of Gamevy's games to date.
Project management from customer request to delivery
Creating playable prototypes and simulations as well as the probabilistic maths to verify their correctness
UX: Making sure that Gamevy's games not only look great but are also easy to understand and a fun to play
Implementation of backend infrastructure in accordance with gambling regulations
Implementation of game frontend for both mobile and desktop via HTML5. Frequent contributer to PIXI.js
Creation of infrastructure for continuous deployment, scaling, monitoring and auditing

Last.fm (Dec 2012 - Aug 2013), London

Data Developer

Designing and maintaining back-end services in Java, Hadoop

Refactoring and enhancements for Music Manager, a platform for labels that supplies most of Last.fm's streams
Data research (Hadoop, Hive, SQL)

Last.fm (Oct 2011 - Dec 2012), London

Web Developer

Back-end focused, with occasional front end projects in a small team

Refactor of a chart-image generator service, serving millions of requests per day
Maintenance of infrastructure that handles user-uploaded images
Suggested, prototyped, designed and implemented main parts of Last.fm's realtime charts infrastructure that provided up-to-the-second resolution
Participated in major redesign project

IBM (Oct 2008 - Nov 2011), Germany

Corporate Student Program

Full time project work in various IBM teams combined with an integrated university BSc program

Planning, design and development of a virtual tour through IBM data centres
Development of various tools to improve reusability of automated test cases on z/Linux
Development, roll out and support of a web based process planning tool