# Bryant Kongkachandra

> Lead Product Manager | Game Designer

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/bryantkongkachandra

## Work Experience
### Lead Product Manager @ Zynga
Jan 2025 – Present

### Lead Product Manager @ Bellota Labs
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025

### Lead Games Product Manager @ Akili
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024

### Senior Product Manager @ Age of Learning
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022

### Principal Game Designer @ Jam City
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022
- Constructed feature roadmap for top mobile puzzle app, Panda Pop, to hit KPI targets based on forecasting and ROI models communicated to execs and key stakeholders
- Increased ARPU by ~10% through tuning, new feature implementation, and A/B testing
- Led projects to prototype and greenlight new games with other product owners
- Followed market to understand product trends and maintain competitive parity

### Product Manager @ Game Closure
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019
- Product manager, producer, and designer on EverWing (shooter-RPG, top Facebook Messenger instant game with ~30 million MAU at peak worldwide)
- Manage the overall project planning, direction, and execution of EverWing's liveops initiatives, including rotating events and seasonal features
- Design and analyze A/B tests based on live data to improve product KPIs
- Tune EverWing's extensive economy and gacha systems
- Work with teammates distributed worldwide while reporting directly to CEO
- Team with executives and business development to manage multiple international platform partnerships as a pioneer for new gaming platforms
- Collaborate with product owners on projects to prototype new games
- Traveled with stakeholders to attend meetings to secure business partnerships

* Games include: EverWing
* Technologies used: Amplitude, JIRA, Asana, Photoshop, Google and Microsoft Applications

### Lead Game Designer @ Storm8
Jan 2012 – Jan 2018
- Led 5 mobile games for iOS and Android from concept to live operations,
including Hungry Babies Mania (Top-200 grossing at peak)
- Managed and mentored team members in writing feature specs, creating puzzle game
content and utilizing data to improve user experience
- Sole obstacle, modes, and level designer on Bubble Mania and Jewel Mania at
launch (~750K DAU at launch)
- Pitched an unannounced game currently in development & worked with a
small cross-discipline team to iterate on features and design
- Ran user tests as well as utilized live data to iterate on game design
- Collaborated with Engineering to experiment on design and create tools
- Helped tune systems and economies for casino and invest/express games

* Games include: Home Design Makeover!, Bubble Mania, Jewel Mania, Dragon Story, Hungry Babies Mania
* Technologies used: Looker, MySQL, JIRA, Google Applications, Unity3D

### Senior QA Tester, Game Designer @ RockYou
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
- Created and executed test plans for social games on Facebook
- Wrote documentation for game tuning and balancing
- Collaborated with game teams in creating specs for new features

* Games include: Zoo World 1 & 2, Gourmet Ranch

### Game Designer, Production Coordinator @ Activision
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010
- Designed note tracks for Guitar Hero games
- Tuned casual rhythm games to create fun player experience that optimized skill progression
- Created and managed spreadsheets used for team coordination

* Games include: Guitar Hero 5, Guitar Hero: Van Halen, Wolfenstein

### Game Designer, Producer @ Konami Digital Entertainment
Jan 2003 – Jan 2009
- Designed content for games including the Dance Dance Revolution series 
- Created project test plans and guideline documents for various stages of the product development cycle

* Games include: DDR Ultramix 2-4, DDR Disney Channel Edition, Metal Gear Solid 3


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryant-kongkachandra

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Last updated: 2026-04-07