Product leader with 15+ years in games and creator platforms, building products for both players and creators. Experience spans creator-facing tools, Edtech/UGC platforms, and running live games at scale. Led product across 20+ shipped games since 2010, grossing $150m+ in revenue.

EXPERIENCE

Founder, Syzygy 2023 – Present

Independent Game Studio  •  San Francisco Bay Area 
Building original titles and selective game outsourcing projects.

• Guild of Guardians (Executive Producer with Mineloader Studios): Took over a stalled project, redesigned the game, scaled global team to 40, and launched game in 12 months with D1 retention of >60% and >$24m in revenue to date. Built tight feedback loops with the player community throughout development to validate design decisions.
• Magic Eden: Contracted to design and ship a token rewards system for the largest SOL NFT marketplace, generating millions in transaction value. Worked across product, engineering, and BD to balance creator and buyer dynamics in a two-sided economy.

Co-Founder & CEO, Incite Interactive 2023 – 2025

Agentic Lifesim Game  •  San Francisco Bay Area 
Early innovator at the intersection of simulating realistic AI agents and gaming

• Raised seed round from A16Z Speedrun, Dave Baszucki (founder of Roblox), and 5+ game industry insiders.
• Shipped Auravale.io, a playable agentic life sim demo that moved the agentic gaming space forward significantly.
• Ran viral marketing campaigns reaching 5m+ organic impressions for AuraVale.

Co-Founder & CEO, Knock Knock Games 2018 – 2022

Mobile & Web Gaming Studio  •  San Francisco Bay Area 
Founded a mobile gaming studio that shipped 10 games, accumulated 6M+ installs. Built Vy Worlds, a two-sided creator platform where users build, publish, and discover games.

• Launched first game 2 months after founding; profitable within 4 months.
• Worked closely with our 14k Discord community members to identify pain points and improve usability via daily Discord chats and weekly town halls.
• Vy Worlds grew to 14K community members and produced 9K+ user-created games.
• Raised $6M+ from LVP, March Gaming, Raine, and Ludlow Ventures.

Senior Product Manager, Zynga 2016 – 2018

San Francisco Bay Area 
Led product on the emerging platforms team, rapidly prototyping and shipping games for Facebook Messenger and iMessage.

• Shipped 6+ HTML5 titles generating 100M+ installs on Facebook Instant Games.
• Collaborated cross-functionally with Design, Engineering, and Data Science to define strategy and ship with urgency on tight timelines.

Product Manager, Glu Mobile (acquired by EA) 2015 – 2016

San Francisco Bay Area

• Product manager on Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, Eternity Warriors 4, and WeFire, the #1 mobile shooter in China (co-published with Tencent).
• Designed and shipped the subscriptions monetization feature for Kim, leading to a 15% increase in revenue (>$3M/year).

Co-Founder, RevSquared 2013 – 2015

Beijing, China

• Built an educational gaming studio in the early days of the App Store. Meerkat Math: generated six figures of revenue for less than 3 months dev time.
• The Reading Train: 180K downloads and 1M+ books read with 55% day-30 retention; partnered with “The US Teacher Of the Year” to write 100+ books for the platform.

Product Manager, Happy Elements 2010 – 2013

Beijing, China 
Joined one of the first Chinese mobile gaming studios as a Product Manager and game designer on Legend Four. Reached #44 on the US iTunes top chart in 2013 and was licensed to Kabam.

EDUCATION

B.S. Economics, The Ohio State University  |  Minor in Music  |  Mandarin Professional working proficiency