Who are we?

Riad is the product manager of Codecks. He is also the co-founder of indie games company Maschinen-Mensch and still believes that Street Fighter 2 is the most beautiful video game ever created. Coincidentally he also believes that Codecks is the best project management tool for game developers. Apparently he has been creating video games for over 14 years now and considers himself a productivity nerd: scrum, kanban, extreme programming, waterfall, seinfeld. He has tried it all.

Saying that Daniel loves programming would be an understatement. He has a quasi-mystical relationship with it. Maybe it is more accurate to say that programming loves him? When he’s not wrangling code for Codecks or participating in hackathons, he humbles his opponents on Age of Empires II (1v6! You monster).

At some point, Codecks needed a virtouse designer. Well, at least they found Michael. He got super infected with the project and eventually became a team member. When he’s not pixel-pushing new interface components for Codecks, he’s probably lost in never ending games of Europa Universalis or Imperator: Rome.

Irina has worked in film, gaming, and VC, which is basically the career equivalent of a triple combo move. She thinks everything should be more joyful and playful so naturally, she ended up at Codecks handling all things marketing. When she’s not helping make Codecks delightful, she’s scaling rock walls, diving into the ocean (hello new PADI certification!), or on an eternal quest for the world’s best meal. She firmly believes Ori and the Will of the Wisps, It Takes Two, and Breath of the Wild are the best games. She’s probably right about at least two of those.

Raphael’s big on storytelling, having started off in book publishing, where he spent nearly a decade across different publishing houses and his own ebook distribution platform. Now, you will mostly find him introducing game developers to the Codecks way of building games.

Outside of work, Raphael is a big fan of narrative, platformers and metroidvanias, but he only runs through them ONCE. He believes life’s too short to stick to playing the same one over and over again. He’s based in Rotterdam and, fun fact, has lived not in one, not in two, but three of the four last cities to host the Summer Olympics (!) during the games (!!).