Maksim Kurtlatskov

Founded an independent game studio and launched FarmFun, a live revenue-generating casual farming game on Telegram, growing the audience to 120K+ players. Own the full product lifecycle solo, including product strategy, game design, backend, database administration, content pipeline, LiveOps events, and community management.

Owned product strategy and roadmap for X.LA, a gaming-commerce platform combining B2B and B2C solutions, reporting to executive leadership and aligning roadmap with company OKRs. Led design and marketing initiatives to merge multiple consumer products into a unified commerce hub, improving conversion and activation by 15%.

Owned the new-player experience for a top-grossing mobile RPG, redesigning the entry flow and onboarding with mini-games to attract casual players, improving early retention and tutorial completion by 9%. Established a systematic A/B testing and experimentation process and enhanced monetization strategy, increasing audience retention and lifetime value by 4.5%.

Built an in-house game development studio from scratch, including hiring, processes, tooling, and culture for a team of 50. Took over already-launched projects and moved them into stable live operations while maintaining quality and engagement.

Led development of an SDK suite for popular game engines, simplifying partner integration and reducing time-to-integrate from months to hours. Designed a headless architecture for the Commerce API, streamlining monetization services for game partners.

Managed development of mobile cross-platform casual games, including scope, backlog, delivery process, and release planning.

Founded a startup building interactive real-estate presentations for desktop, mobile, web, and full-immersion VR, owning product, sales, and delivery. Completed a remote acceleration program at IIDF (FRII) with the startup.

Master's Degree in Engineering from Perm State University, completed in 2007.