Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison
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- From 2023, leads product, research, and analytics for Yarn Spinner, a narrative game tool used in top Steam games with over 6M units sold, and spearheaded its spinoff as a new company.
- Since 2020, co-founder and Head of Product at Secret Lab, focusing on game design and UX for award-winning projects like Night in the Woods and ABC Play School games.
- From 2025, presents a monthly space news segment on ABC Radio Hobart and Northern Tasmania.
- Authored about 30 technical books for O'Reilly Media (2011-2023) on topics like Swift, iOS, game design, ML, AI, and astrophysics, with global conference talks.
- Worked as Product Manager at Meebo/Google (2007-2013), building mobile apps debuted at Apple's iPhone OS 3.0 event serving ~70M users.
- Since 2008, teaches HCI, mobile development, AI, computer graphics, and programming as a sessional academic at the University of Tasmania.