Anastasios Katopodis

Senior Producer @ Next Games, A Netflix Game Studio

About

I like games and love helping out nice people make good games. I like to think myself as a good guy. If you think you are too, drop me a line. Oh, I do a bit of public speaking too.

Country

Finland

City

Vantaa

Industry

Computer Games

Skill

Game Development, Scrum, Agile Methodologies, Localization, Mobile Applications, Mobile Devices, Mobile Games, Quality Assurance, Social Games, Video Games, User Experience, User Interface Design, Computer Games, Casual Games, Game Design

Experience

Senior Producer

Next Games, A Netflix Game Studio

2024-8 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Team Producer responsible for organizing production of new games for the Netflix service. Doing everything related to helping people be informed and effective so developing is not an unpleasant adventure.

Producer

EA SPORTS

2022-2 - 2024-8 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Vantaa, Uusimaa, Finland

Producer at FIFA Live Dev team. Prioritizing and coordinating the Live cycle work to be delivered for, primarily but not limited to, the Ultimate Team game mode.

Production Lead

Lightneer

2021-9 - 2022-1 · 5 mos

Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Part of Lightneer Ops. Responsible for helping resident and partner teams improve their production process and deliver timely, good quality and fun hyper casual games.

Lead Producer

Lightneer

2019-8 - 2021-9 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Helsinki Area, Finland

Part of our leadership team, responsible for sourcing our partner studios along with helping them produce fun and successful hyper casual games.

Producer

Wargaming

2017-5 - 2018-8 · 1 yr 4 mos

Helsinki Area, Finland

Worked with a lovely bunch of people to implement Agile and more specifically Scrum practices to the Helsinki studio of Wargaming Mobile.

Production Director

SPYR, Inc

2016-2 - 2016-10 · 9 mos

Finland

Worked on the performance of SPYR’s published mobile games and helped out studios on the SPYR roaster. I also got in a word or two sbout acquisition and investment.

Executive Producer

Rovio Entertainment

2014-5 - 2015-12 · 1 yr 8 mos

• https://youtu.be/diqyZra_LDk • Top secret project

Head of Production, Rovio Stars

Rovio Entertainment

2014-1 - 2014-5 · 5 mos

Finland

Helping out Rovio Stars producers and teams do great without stressing.

Senior Producer

Rovio Entertainment

2012-11 - 2013-12 · 1 yr 2 mos

Finland

• https://youtu.be/diqyZra_LDk • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Thief • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juice_Cubes

Senior Web Games Producer

Rovio Entertainment

2011-8 - 2012-11 · 1 yr 4 mos

Finland

• Angry Birds Chrome https://youtu.be/V70ruRzEGOI • Angry Birds: The Hunt For the Golden Pistachio http://youtu.be/0JSKbkvshGU • Angry Birds on Google+ (RIP) • Couple of other web campaigns

Scrum Master

Nokia

2010-2 - 2011-9 · 1 yr 8 mos

Document viewers, Calendar and Notes apps for Nokia N9: http://www.nokia.com/global/products/phone/n9

Associate Producer

Digital Chocolate

2009 - 2010 · 1 yr

• PC downloadable ports • Ports to iOS • Couple of original titles including FOX's 24 pt. 2

QA Lead

Digital Chocolate

2008 - 2009 · 1 yr

Many, many games. A long, long time ago.

Localization Tester

Digital Chocolate

2006 - 2008 · 2 yrs

Greek localization and testing for God knows how many projects.

Localization Tester

Lionbridge

2003 - 2004 · 1 yr

Anyone remembers Nokia's N Gage QD? I did a bit of localization for that one.

Localization

Mediamaisteri

2003-12 - 2003-12 · 1 mo

TOP SECRET

Education

University of Tampere 1925-2018

Sociology

Majoring in Sociology I attended Tampere University's International School of Social Sciences and participated their Information Society program. Got as close as 20 pages of Thesis to graduating before games got the best of me.