Summary
Amitt Mahajan is a seasoned technology founder and leader guiding the next generation of player-owned games. As CEO and Co-Founder of Proof of Play, he is building decentralized game universes while actively investing in early-stage AR ventures. Based in San Francisco, he also serves as Managing Partner & Co-Founder at Presence Capital, backing early-stage VR/AR startups, and is a Fellow at the Edmund Hillary Fellowship. His background spans leadership roles at Rare Bits, Fig, Toro, Zynga, MyMiniLife, Epic Games and EA/Maxis, where he drove engineering culture, scalable game platforms, and large-scale social titles like FarmVille. Notably, he led the development of ZEngine and the shared tech stack that powered Zynga's web and social games, and he has hands-on experience shipping AAA and mass-market games across multiple platforms. He combines a rare blend of hands-on engineering, startup building, and strategic investing to turn ambitious ideas into production-scale experiences for players.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Japanese, Spanish, Hindi