I've had the pleasure of working with David during my time as a Research and Development Intern at Arkadium. There are so many things can be said, but fantastically clever and exceptionally fast are the first to come to mind. In one instance, we worked directly on level design and narrative framing for a web arena game, and David was swift to suggest and implement changes that would enhance the user experience. This holds true for numerous projects throughout the time that we have collaborated with each other; he never ceases to amaze with the efficiency of his tasks all while generously and honestly offering assistance to others.

As my supervisor, he has provided a plethora of insight and support pertaining to game development and design in the mobile and web games industry. Outside of the office, he is seen frequenting the local games scene, including Come Out and Play and the Sheep's Meow Arcades and is a pleasure to converse with on any occasion. I definitely recommend David and would be absolutely delighted if ever presented with the opportunity to work with him again.

Wen Shi, Software Development Engineer, Amazon
Reported to David at Arkadium

David Or is an excellent developer and game designer. Working with David from a QA perspective, David not only fixes issues, but works with you to suggest solutions to arrive at the best implementation, that not only works for the team but takes account of the consumer's perspective. David attends many Game Jams and is constantly working to excel at his craft. I highly recommend David and think he would be a great addition at any company he works at.

Silas Law, Associate Technology Director, Quality Assurance, R/GA
Worked alongside David at Arkadium

David is a fantastic colleague who possesses infinite patience, kindness and self-awareness. I do not work directly with David, but have observed consistent professionalism in everything he does. He is a great manager who continuously pushes and grows his team of developers. At the same time, he is the first to offer support to other departments, helping them improve their processes or teaching them something new. David always goes above and beyond by representing Arkadium at career fairs, mentoring interns, organizing lunch and learns, and setting up fun game nights for the rest of the team. He is a pleasure to work with and I value him greatly.

Anne Dong, Sr. People Innovation Business Partner, Arkadium
Worked alongside David at Arkadium

I have been fortunate to work with David on several projects throughout my almost 2 years at Arkadium. During each project, David went above and beyond to deliver results that were polished, detailed, and timely. I know I can always count on David to lend a helping hand and to answer my endless questions quickly and thoroughly. David is also gifted at giving hilarious presentations during our weekly Monday meetings. I'm lucky to have worked with David and can't recommend him enough as a colleague.

Sarah Sung, VP Account Management, OpenInvest
Worked alongside David at Arkadium

It was a pleasure to work with David. He is a very solid engineer from speed and quality perspective. He can pick up very complex problems and solve them well. He has thoughts on both engineering and design. Also, he is a good mentor who I learnt a lot from.

Leisen Huang, Staff Engineer, Wonder Workshop
Reported to David at Arkadium

I worked with David when he was my manager while I was a Game Development Intern at Arkadium. Over the course of my internship, it was invaluable being able to work with a person who was such a skilled developer as well as an excellent teacher.

Having never worked in JavaScript before, David provided continual guidance and suggestions, helping me to quickly grasp the language and make the most of my internship. Incredibly good-humored and easy to get along with, David made the experience of working at Arkadium, not only educational, but fun as well - everyday I was assigned projects that challenged me and truly helped the company, an opportunity that I sincerely appreciated being given. In addition, David always emphasized expanding one’s horizons, through talks about game design, programmatic challenges, and encouraging me to be an active participant in the life of the company.

It was pleasure to work with David and be given the opportunity to learn so much from a person who is genuinely passionate about the work they do and sharing that passion with others.

Grant MacFaddin, Business Analyst, Deloitte Consulting
Reported to David at Arkadium

I had a great pleasure working with David for almost 3 years at Arkadium. He's a hard worker and very active in the New York gaming industry. While I was in New York we participated in a lot of game jams and I could always count on him to get it done. I've worked with many people at the company and he's one of the friendliest and easiest person to work with.

Kei Tawara, Freelance Artist & Illustrator, Tawaradesign
Worked alongside David at Arkadium

I had the pleasure of working with David during Arkadium's Game Jam. He showed great enthusiasm and was quick to adapt to the different technologies we used for our project. We worked alongside with the rest of the team to solidify the design and technical aspects of our game, and he was always quick on his feet to achieve solutions to our problems. It was a great working with David and recommend him to the highest degree.

John Luu, Product Manager, Scholastic
Worked alongside David at Arkadium

David is a skilled, hardworking developer to be sure. He has a can-do attitude which makes him great to work with, especially as a designer asking if they can have something implemented. Beyond that, he's a patient teacher, trusted consultant, and good friend. David always seeks to build projects flexible, with an eye toward support in the future and leaving behind documentation regularly. He is also one of the nicest, easiest-to-get-along-with guys I know.

Heather Arbiter, Product Manager, Jump Ramp
Worked alongside David at Arkadium

Simply put, David is an awesome, all-around colleague who makes the office a better place. He's a brilliant developer with an innovative mind and superb organization, and he leads his team in that image. The way he's climbed the ladder and progressed within Arkadium is an inspiration for every employee. David's passion, charisma and fun-loving spirit leave a lasting impression on everyone he works with. I will always be happy to recommend him highly as a colleague whose impact can be felt in so many ways.

John Dorn, Creative Lead, Vidsy
Worked alongside David at Arkadium

I worked with David Or for six years at Arkadium. Our work together began with discussing user feedback for prototypes of games he built and communicating user-reported bugs from customer service channels. Eventually I began working in the same division as David, and eventually we worked on the same team when he was lead developer on a game I product managed. We worked together in creating solutions to data-driven and user-driven feedback designed to increase revenue in existing games, and we also teamed up for several special events, such as planning internal jams and participating in industry events.

Three things I admire about David are his commitment to continued learning, his initiative in helping to educate his coworkers, and his genuine interest in using feedback from users or data to improve products he is working on.

Over the years we worked together, David was constantly learning new technologies, and finding ways to experiment with his learnings for the benefit of the team and the business. He was not resistant to changes in technology nor changes in business direction.

David also created and hosted many educational events for employees each year I worked with him. He could successfully balance informing non-programmers of complicated subjects while demonstrating a depth of knowledge about new subjects for those who were more technically inclined.

While David was always committed to products he worked on, he was also willing to accept feedback and changes in stride. User feedback can be frustrating, whether it's a bug resurfacing through no fault of our own or players disliking a feature we worked hard on, but David was always open to understanding the root causes of these challenges and meeting them head-on rather than being defensive or stubborn.

For all of the reasons above, I would recommend David for any development role, but especially one where he can serve as a role model and source of learning for junior developers.

Brian Peterson, Product Manager, Customer Care, The New York Times
Worked alongside David at Arkadium

David is a very well-rounded game developer and I always enjoyed having him on my projects and game jam teams. He is one of those devs who has a critical eye for design - not only from a game mechanics perspective, but for the holistic player experience and even the demographic considerations and personas involved. He also cares deeply about the quality and end results of his teams' work and brings just the right amount of challenge to preconceptions that can give many teams tunnel-vision. I would love to get a chance to work with him again, especially on innovation-heavy projects that require iteration and his T-shaped skills.

Jeff Lindsey, Head of Production, Bossa Studios
Worked alongside David at Arkadium

I’m working with David about 2 years and It’s really pleasure to work with him. He is a very positive and optimistic person.

David is very smart, he always has a lot of ways to solve any issue. Also, David is really the best manager I’ve ever seen, he is a great team leader who really cares about each team member and each project his team is working on. He is always controlling all processes and trying to make them better. And at the same time he is a great developer with very deep game development expertise.

David is incredibly good team leader who helps his team to grow in professional and personal ways and I’m so glad to be a part of his team at Arkadium.

Michael Skvortsov, Senior Software Engineer, Arkadium
Reported to David at Arkadium

David is a tremendous colleague, leader and programmer at Arkadium. Beyond his stellar and meticulous work, he's always positive and approachable. If you're ever lucky enough to work with David, you'll know exactly what I mean! David is capable of achieving great things in a short amount of time because he empowers and trusts his colleagues to do the same.

Michael Scrivner, Marketing Manager, Arkadium
Worked alongside David at Arkadium

David is an all star! His skills, personality and work ethic are the things that all Producers dream about at night. He is the full package -- a brilliant programmer, a great game designer, and he has a keen eye for artistic detail. When he was a programmer on a project I was managing, he was like a ray of sunlight at our day stand ups. He always has a smile and brings an infectious joy to his team. David is an organized self-starter. He manages his time well and always gets his work done. I loved working with him. When he joined the R&D team at Arkadium, it was a perfect fit. He uses his game design, programming, and art skills to bring ideas to life quickly. David is a rock star and anyone would be lucky to have him on their team

Kara Kono, Senior Program Manager, Minecraft
Worked alongside David at Arkadium

I worked with David for years at Arkadium. David is experienced game developer who has skills in different technologies. He is great team player and he is very responsible and motivated person. David took part in rapid development of many succesfull games and participated in organization of many events in company (game jams, learning sessions etc). It is a pleasure to work with David.

Alexander Dryomov, Director of Game Programming, (formerly) Arkadium
Managed David at Arkadium

I worked first hand with David on a prototype for a new game idea. His organization and efficiency was evident from day one. He kept his work transparent, took suggestions well, and offered anyone on the team the opportunity to jump into the coding process.

Ian Braunstein, Product Manager, Facebook
Worked alongside David at Arkadium

Having David as a manager during my internship at Arkadium was a great privilege. David always seemed to approach a problem with a cool head and would diligently work until he found a solution, which was always a shockingly short amount of time. Anything David produced had a level of professionalism and finesse that anyone would find both valuable and impressive. Most importantly, David's level of patience made working with and learning from him an enlightening and pleasurable experience.

Dylan Nelkin, Junior Game Designer, Dire Wolf Digital
Reported to David at Arkadium

I had the pleasure to collaborate with David Or during my game design internship at Arkadium. When I met him, I instantly felt completely at ease. He is approachable and humble, yet exceptional at game development and design. If he is unsatisfied with his current work, David will labor tirelessly on it - even after hours - until it is to his liking, and always meets his deadlines. David is the kind of person who wants to make sure his work is the best it can be.

I enthusiastically recommend David for the Senior Game Developer position at Arkadium!

Felicia Wong, Software Engineer, Schrödinger
Worked alongside David at Arkadium

David is an incredible teacher with a positive attitude toward his work. He is organized, patient and thorough in the projects he manages and is always willing to educate those interested in the gaming industry. When he's not working on the next coolest game, he's driving the culture at Arkadium with fun social events like board game nights! It's a pleasure to learn about the various approaches and ideas he applies to his work. David's qualities embody a great leader and is a valued asset to any organization!

Andrew Conner, Manager Business Operations, Samsung Ads
Worked alongside David at Arkadium

Although I wasn't on the same exact team as David, I had plenty of interaction with him and can definitively state that he was an incredibly reliable professional individual to work with. David has a clear and wonderfully refreshing love for what he does and his strong interest in his work is highly contagious.

Due to David's constant willingness to help his fellow coworkers and his constant positive attitude, it made projects infinitely easier and made it a pleasure to collaborate with him. He clearly focuses on solutions rather than issues/problems, and strives to come up with positive resolutions. He always brings invaluable levels of knowledge and expertise whether it is during an internal meeting, external meeting, or when simply going up to him at his desk with a question.

I really can't recommend or commend David enough as it was really wonderful to work with him in a professional capacity and getting to know him personally. Personally, David is always great to talk to and really enhances the culture of the office which is increasingly more and more important. I will always be happy to recommend David!

Adam Yuki Walsh, Senior Account Manager, Arkadium
Worked alongside David at Arkadium

What can I say about David Or? He is an amazingly diverse coder who can quickly jump into new technologies and program complex systems fast. He has a deep understanding of game design as well as a library of knowledge about all types of games. He is involved in almost every industry event and is an avid game jammer. On top of this David is one of the nicest people I know and a joy to work with. He is the backbone of Arkadium's R&D dept. and will be a valued team member wherever he goes.

Julia Keren-Detar, Game, UX, And Instructional Designer, Project Manager, Art Director, The Game Agency
Worked alongside David at Arkadium

In my time at Arkadium, both as an intern and a junior developer, David's role as senior game developer and my direct supervisor was instrumental in my overall experience with the company, and in my growth as a developer over this short period. His vast knowledge of the field and expertise as a programmer, as well as his extreme amicability and willingness to teach made him the perfect mentor, and helped create an environment of expedited learning and constant growth since day one.

David was an attentive and empathetic manager, always being keen to make sure I had everything I needed. Whether it was a request to show me best practices regarding a certain paradigm, or just a moment of his time to think aloud and pick his brain, David was always willing to spend the extra time and energy to ensure all my questions were answered.

I would vouch for David in any capacity, both developer and manager.

Calvin Lee, DevOps Engineer, Radancy
Reported to David at Arkadium

David is a highly talented developer and tester. While we were working together at Massive/Microsoft, David was one of the top performers on the team. His bug reports were insightful, detailed, and very well written. He was not only an efficient QA lead but also did excellent work at developing testing tools to support the rest of the team. I would highly recommend David for any development or QA position.

Sam Bjorkman, Senior QA Engineer, OneStream Software
Managed David at Massive Inc

Used to work together with David in Arkadium Core team, coordinating the international game development. David has shown himself an able, understanding, competent and multipurpose colleague who assisted us in a great variety of tasks: UI improvements, concept creation, game testing results interpretation, bug fixes, and much more. Only positive feedback left from this experience.

Mikhail Romanovskii, Product Analyst, Datcroft Games
Worked alongside David at Arkadium

I always say David is the employee of the month... forever. He's my favorite person to work with creatively, and he's far too humble about his level of skill. He's always upbeat and funny, and works together to tweak the details; it's like having a magic genie to make ideas come alive. I always say that the best game programmers have a strong designer side, and Dave is the picture of this. He stays busy honing his skills, going to conferences, studying the finer details of games, and improving on everything he knows. Dave's #1.

Drew Blomquist, Freelance Artist & Animator, (formerly) Arkadium
Worked alongside David at Arkadium

David's a really sharp guy that I'd trust with any development job that needs doing. I had the pleasure of working with him on a few different teams during my time at Arkadium, and he always stood out as a guy who got our code done fast and clean. He's an awesome problem solver who knows games, and he's a great addition to any studio looking to bolster their dev team.

Joe Laurino, Game Designer, Avalanche Studios
Worked alongside David at Arkadium

Sometimes you meet someone in your career that breaks the saying 'Jack of all trades master of none', David is one of those guys - a Creative & Engineering powerhouse that is also extremely professional and caring as a manager and as an employee. Highly recommended.

Stephen Jarrett, Vice President, Creative, King
Managed David at Arkadium