Andrey Panfilov

Andrey Panfilov has worked in the gaming industry since 2013. Andrey began their career as a Game Designer at Pixonic in 2013, where they were responsible for metrics analysis, balance calculation, documentation, UI prototyping, task management, copywriting, QA, and level design. In 2014, they joined NX Studio as a Lead Game Designer, where they were responsible for prototyping, determing product vision, balance calculation, documentation, UI prototyping, managing and training a team of game designers, backlog management/grooming, iteration planning, controlling art tasks, and supporting some scrum practices. Andrey was also responsible for giving lectures on game design for the company's game designers. In 2018, they moved to Game Insight as a Game Producer, where they managed the communications and relations between the production studio and HQ, and guided the development of product vision. In 2019, they joined Nexters as a Game Producer/Product Manager, where they lead a product team of 30 members for Hero Wars, a Top-50 Grossing Mobile battler/RPG game. In 2020, they co-founded Colossi Games, a self-publishing mobile games developer based in Limassol, Cyprus.

Andrey Panfilov obtained a Specialist degree in Engineering from Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas (National Research University) between 2007 and 2012. In February 2020, they obtained the Data-driven product management certification from GoPractice, Inc and the Scrum Master certification from ScrumTrek.