Katie Powell

Katie Powell has a diverse range of work experience in the gaming industry. Katie is currently an Advanced Engineer at Schell Games, where they started in January 2023. Prior to that, Katie served as the Lead Gameplay Programmer & Designer at Art of Distress Games starting in April 2020. Katie also worked as a Gameplay Programmer at BEGiN from May 2021 to August 2022.

Katie's early career includes roles as a Gameplay Programmer at codeSpark from November 2016 to August 2022, a Gameplay Engineer at GameCake from June 2016 to September 2016, and a Level Designer at Zynga from January 2016 to May 2016.

In 2015, Katie held positions as a Game Designer at Zindagi Games and a Game Design Intern at Disney Consumer Products. At Disney, they worked on Imagicademy, a series of educational iPad apps for kids, and was responsible for designing and testing game concepts.

Katie's first internship experiences were at Early Adopter Network as a QA Intern in 2014 and at Music Mastermind, Inc as a Programming Intern from May 2014 to August 2014.

Katie Powell attended the University of Southern California from 2010 to 2014, where they earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science with a focus on Games. In addition, they obtained a certification from the Reimagine Education Awards in January 2018.