omid “dimo” farivar

Born in Southern California (a while ago) to a family of war refugees who went from nothing to middle class. I believe in looking out for people with less. I hold strong opinions loosely, and I always know where I'm going, even when I don't know the route yet.

Games are a big part of my life. I played StepMania on Games Done Quick from my garage, with friends on commentary, and together we raised $100K for Doctors Without Borders. Most years I also team up with rhythm game legend Chris C. to raise thousands for the Alzheimer's Association and Breakthrough T1D.

I also run dimocracy, a community ITG charting series that's given away $4K to date. I keep it going to raise the bar on tech quality and the meta of user-made content, and to keep the whole thing social and fun.

I love: music, public speaking, pretending I can voice act, learning how to human and how other humans (and why?) human, my wife, and trying to leave the world a little better than I found it. ez

I run Takimo, a research and product consultancy built entirely on referrals. More at takimo.info.

I'm good at figuring out why things work (or don't), on the technical side and the human side. That's useful whether the problem is UX, HR, or the business itself.

Built and ran the user research team at Discord. Before that, led research at Cruise, Dropbox, and Meta, where my research kicked off Facebook Gaming. Started out as an intern at Blizzard.