Dmitrii Roets & Upa Yavalkar

Join us Thursday, September 2, 2021 at 11:00 AM ET in a candid conversation with experienced alumni as they provide insights on the international student experience. About Dmitrii Roets Dmitrii is a 2017 MS Game Design and 2014 BS Game Development graduate from South Africa. Upon graduating from Full Sail, he found his way to the independently-owned mobile gaming company, MonkeyFun where he worked on titles such as Alpha Squad 5 and Genies. Since early 2020, he has been serving as a UI Engineer at Activision/Blizzard, currently working on the Call of Duty Franchise. About Upamanyu Yavalkar Upamanyu Yavalkar graduated with a bachelor's degree from Full Sail's Game Development program in 2018 and is currently a Game Designer and Developer at Ronin Labs as well as the Co-Founder of Under the Lighthouse. Continually striving to push boundaries in interactive storytelling, he uses AR/VR to build unique experiences through gamified projects for non-gaming brands. Having shipped over 20 projects in the AR and Playable Ads space, he experiments with the latest and greatest software and hardware. Upamanyu also rides motorcycles and plays the bass.