Best blend

Alexandru Cotenescu · R&D Team LeaderPlaytika logoPlaytika
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At Playtika, Alexandru Cotenescu thrives as an R&D team leader, where he seamlessly blends game development with people growth in a dynamic environment. Starting his journey as a Unity developer, Alex now leads a cross-functional team that embodies professionalism and mutual support. He finds joy in staying at the forefront of technology and trends, ensuring continuous improvement for both products and team members. His experience highlights the impact of balancing technical innovation with people management, fostering a culture where the phrase "when, not if" reflects their collective drive for success.

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"For me, Clitika offers the best blend of game development and growing people in a challenging and ever-changing environment." "Hi, I'm Alex. I'm an R&D team leader at Clitika, started here around six years ago as a Unity developer, now leading my own cross-functional development team, and I'm enjoying game development at its fullest." "For me, running the game means staying on top of the technologies, on top of the new trends, and ensuring continuous improvement both for our products, but also for our people." "What I enjoy most in Clitika is, first of all, my amazing team, highly professional people, people that support each other every day, and they support me every step of the way, and the environment because it's highly dynamic and we know how to balance work and fun. Being a team leader has been impactful in more ways than I would have imagined, because at first it was about in- development and putting together the technical aspects of the game, and then I got into people management and growing people along the way, and this has been an amazing experience for me. Catchphrase that I really believe defines Clitika, it's when, not if, because it shows that we have a vision, we have a passion for success, we have trust in our capabilities of making things happen."