Alli Óttarsson

Principal

2021

Makers Fund is a global interactive entertainment venture capital firm focused on early stage companies. We support founders through our extensive network and deep experience in the industry.

Venture Partner

2020 - 2020

Strategic Advisor

2019

Strategic Advisor

2018 - 2020

Strategic Advisor

2016 - 2020

Sr. Development Director - Games

2015 - 2019

In my current role at Riot Games I co-lead the Development Management discipline at Riot and am responsible for all of our Development Directors and Devleopment Mangers that work on games. Both on League of Legends and on our R&D projects.

Sr. Development Director of League of Legends

2012 - 2015

As the Development Director of League of Legends for over three years I * Scaled the development team to over 500 contributors * Transformed the work system to be strategically driven * Enabled a culture and practices for Continuous Delivery * Stabilized our release cycle to reliably deliver every two weeks * ... and built a team of 27 awesome development managers

Production Director

2011 - 2012

Lead and owned the global game development process and provided leadership and mentorship to the Production discipline across all of CCP. Organized, facilitated and lead long term portfolio level planning. Managed strategic partnerships with third parties and developed and implemented continuous education programs within the Production discipline.

Sr. Technical Producer

2009 - 2011

My duties in this position included productization of CCP’s core technology platform: Carbon, servant team leadership, coordinating with the Sr. Producers of CCP’s products on portfolio level plans and technical roadmaps and evangelizing Agile project management methodologies and production best practices throughout the global organization as well as managing offshore outsourcing relationships.

Technical Producer

2007 - 2009

Team facilitation, planning and production with the EVE Online Software group and later CCP´s Core Software group, ensuring implementation of third party software and propagation of Agile project management methodologies.

Web Cell Lead

2003 - 2007

My duties included leading a team of up to five web developers, architecting and implementing CCP’s billing and payment platform and was responsible for both CCP’s internal and outwards facing web strategy.

Web Developer

2001 - 2003

Senior Web Engineer

2000 - 2001

Solely developed CCPs internal web infrastructure, EVE Online websites and web services and integrated web and video game support functionality in EVE Online.

Software Integrator

1999 - 2000