About – Blastworks

Games that are a blast to build and play.

It starts with a game, but it becomes more than that. Blastworks is a social game platform. We connect to our audiences. Identify their core interests. Anticipate what they like, what they want to play and who they want to play with. We match players and connect them to social experiences, building unique and lasting communities. Every game challenges. Every achievement offers rewards. Every player feels like a winner. Everyone shares the experience.

Some people call that the meta game. We just call it having a blast.

Blastworks Leadership

Kevin Potvin

Managing Director

Kevin joined in April of 2014, leading the creation and execution of technology strategy at Blastworks. His expertise ranges from product strategy and execution to software development, technology architecture and systems/infrastructure engineering. Previously Sr. Director of Engineering with Vivonet, and Manager of Operations with Amazon, Kevin has led engineering and information technology professionals across multiple verticals including e-commerce, payments, business intelligence, financial applications, and most recently, gaming.

Sara Derevyanny

Marketing Manager

Sara joined in May 2011 as an Executive Administrator. She has held a few roles within Blastworks including Executive Assistant and HR Manager. In 2017 Sara began working in Customer Retention Marketing becoming the head of Marketing and HR today. Sara spends her free time with her husband and her aggressively cuddly dog in Kirkland, Washington.

Adam Zacharias

Senior Product Manager

Adam joined Blastworks in December of 2016 as a QA Automation Engineer. He went on to become the QA Lead and in 2019, promoted to Product Manager. Adam grew up in Calgary and then pursued his love for video games by completing the Visual & Game Programming diploma at the Art Institute of Vancouver. While attending the Art Institute, he frequently visited Vancouver Island and knew he would end up there after graduating. Adam spends his free time playing D&D with friends and hiking with his girlfriend and puppy.

Piper Gordon

Software Development Manager

Piper joined blastworks in March of 2024 as the Software Development Manager for the Unity team and BI (business intelligence). She holds a Bachelor of Software Engineering and completed her master’s degree in computer science shortly after starting work at Microsoft Studios Victoria, in 2012. She has worked in software development for One Bit Labs, DreamCraft Attractions, Kano and Unity. Piper has many interests including writing and comedy but, largely due to her three high-energy children, she has negligible free time.

Brandon Bey

Software Development Manager

Brandon joined Blastworks November 2023 as the Software Development Manager for our Content Team. Growing up on Vancounver Island, Brandon has worked in Software Engineering for 15+ years, spending much of his free time tinkering as a hobby gamedev and participating in the occasional GameJam. While his career had him focus on client and customer engagment, his passion was in elevating user and developer experience. At Blastworks he is excited to work with the team making fun and engaging games for our players and improving the tools they use to do it.

Teresa Marek

Art Manager

Teresa joined the Art Team at Blastworks in 2012. After growing up on Vancouver Island she pursued her career in Art, Animation and Design for many years in Vancouver before coming back to the Island.
With a diploma in Graphic Design and 2 diplomas from Capilano University of Commercial Animation and Digital Animation, she found work in the animation industry in a number of disciplines for many years. After the birth of her first child she joined Blastworks and made the switch to gaming.

Lisa Godfrey

Office manager

Lisa joined April 2015 as Office Manager and in July 2016 she also joined the Marketing Team to assist with CRM campaigns. She grew up on Vancouver Island and after a 4-year stint in Vancouver as a Logistics Supervisor at a grain transloading company she was called back to Island life. Settled into Victoria now, you can find Lisa spending her time with her fiancé or painting in her art studio.

Games that are a blast to build and play.

Blastworks Leadership

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