Seth Sivak was most recently VP of Development on World of Warcraft at Blizzard Entertainment. Previously, he was the co-founder and CEO of Proletariat Inc, which was acquired in 2022 by Activision Blizzard. His background is in engineering, product, and design.
Projects and Experience
Proletariat Inc. was acquired by Blizzard Entertainment in 2022.
Vice President of Development and Studio Head for the Blizzard Boston studio.
Co-founder and CEO that has raised several rounds of funding, released numerous games and grown the team from five to over sixty.
Creative Director and Project Lead. Also did some writing.
Engineer, designer, producer and product manager. It was a small team.
Creative Director and Project Lead.
Lead Designer and liaison with LucasFilm on the Indiana Jones IP.
Worked on Café World and Mafia Wars as a product manager.
Graduate intern in the Creative Technology Group in 2008.
Graduate studies in Entertainment Technology on a student pitched game project called Winds of Orbis.
Professor of Game Design that taught Level Design, Introduction to Game Design and more.
Speaker at numerous conferences. See all the talks here.
Writer of chapters on Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Diablo II.
Speaker and member.