Professional ​

Games industry veteran of ~15 years working in player-/customer-facing roles, chiefly within the field of Community Manger, Community Developer, Team Lead, and Social Media Manager. I started in CM at a time where it was not a career, where the role was simply a stepping stone to other roles. I was fortunate enough to part of a team that built a meaningful development track for it as a career, diverging and clarifying the difference between CM and ComDev, allowing those who saw Community as a key role and their calling a means to make it a career.

Today, I am at a crossroads. Having so many years under my belt in CM, and working various levels of seniority within the field, including having the full responsibilities as Head of Community—despite not having the title—I am reaching the ceiling. This means that I have a few options that stand out where I can be of valute to others; mentoring and leadership for the next generation of Community professionals, or to retrain and bring my 15 years of industry knowledge to another discipline.

Recently, I have been spending time working on Game Design in the form of my own small games currently in various stages of prototyping, Narrative Design in the form of Tabletop RPGs, progamming and code work (Javascript, Lua, and Godot scripts). This is something I will continue, as they are all my personal passions and enjoyment, but I also wish to develop these skills to bring to any team I join.

Re-training and starting from a junior position is not an issue for me. My only wish and goal is that I love what I do, as I have done with Community Management. Levels of seniority are forms of external recognition for my skills, but they do not change my enjoyment, so as long as I love it I will continue to do it.

Aside from the "formal" experience, which can be found on my LinkedIn, I have worked in gaming a long time. As a natural collaborator and team-oriented person, I have had direct involvement in Player Support, Marketing, Publishing, PR, BizDev, Influencer Management; as well as strong understanding of the processes and workflows of Production, UX, UI, Accessibility, QA, Legal, and general business.

If you have opportunities, interest in hiring me for freelance contract/consultancy, or want to socialize over a coffee (digital or otherwise), then please feel free to reach out to me. My GMail is demasiri.

Personal Projects ​

For now, my publicly visible projects can be found on my GitHub and will continue to update this site with more works that will live in Projects.

This site is currently a work in progress, but will continue to grow over time.