Building the platforms engineers ship on.

Game developer behind Fortnite and Unreal Engine; products serve hundreds of millions of players and millions of external developers globally.

Promoted Engineering Manager → Sr. Engineering Manager → Engineering Director within 18 months based on demonstrated impact, scope expansion, and EVP sponsorship — team transitioned from QA into core Engineering org

• Joined owning Fortnite Battle Royale release-pipeline reliability across 6 pipelines — defined reliability targets, instrumented measurement, and shipped against them. Delivered in the first ~6 months, earning a $2.2M annual vendor budget in 2024 (renewed in 2025) to augment capacity across three project lines: Fortnite BR, Cosmetic Validation, LEGO Automation + Platform.
• Go/no-go decisions were manual, inconsistent, and too late. Conceived and led delivery of a unified ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) and Tableau platform pulling from Qmetry, CI pipelines, build pipelines, and Jira — release dashboards covering build health, test pass rates, crash and P0/P1 trends, CI/CD pipeline stability, readiness-gate status, and release-over-release trending. Used by 15+ functional leaders for release and investment calls, with the same layer exposed via API for downstream tooling.
• Drove adoption across engineering, QA, and production — shared risk signals and consistent decision criteria.

• Conceived and led delivery of the Internal LLM API Platform — blame-change identification at 80% accuracy, failure triage at 70% — adopted by engineering and QA teams as self-service APIs.
• Conceived and shipped Build Insight — LLM-powered tool that ingested submitted code change lists, summarized them in plain language for non-technical audiences (QA, Release Managers, Tech Art), recommended test focus areas, and identified and recommended specific regression risks. Reached 300 daily active users across cross-functional teams.

• Cosmetic Validation Platform — $10M+ visual quality problem, no system to catch it. Conceived, secured engineering investment, and delivered from scratch: nightly screen capture across 10 platforms, AWS S3 pipeline, web UI, Jira integration. 8 teams self-served via web interface or API — bugs filed directly without involving my team. Delivered ~$3M in savings.
• Cosmetic Performance Automation — Tech Artists had no way to know what a new character or cosmetic would cost in a cooked build. Conceived and led development so they could self-serve memory and performance budgets for 10,000+ cosmetics across Epic's full title portfolio.
• SmartBot & Multiplayer Performance Regression Framework — enabled 125-person India-based test team to self-serve server performance regression coverage across Fortnite BR, Ballistic, and LEGO Fortnite without expanding to projected 200-person team (~$2M avoided cost, ~3,000 US engineering hours saved annually).
• Crash Reporter & HitchHunter — before this existed, unique production crashes were caught manually or not at all. Conceived and shipped to auto-detect crashes and regressions, route them to engineering owners via auto-filed Jira tickets across 10+ teams, and shorten time-to-RCA without manual QA involvement. Saved 2,000 QA hours annually.
• UEFN Platform — 1,000+ external third-party developers, nightly validation across multiple platforms with production-grade coverage. Caught several P0/P1 issues pre-release.
• CI/CD pipeline optimization across 10 platforms and 14 test suites for Fortnite — accelerated nightly build and test pipeline by 46% end-to-end, reclaimed 60,000+ build agent hours annually, improved suite stability by 70%, ~$500K in savings.

• Built and scaled globally distributed engineering organization across US, Europe, and LATAM from 5 → 40 engineers (14 FTE + 26 EPAM vendor engineers) spanning 10+ time zones — including 2 engineering managers and EPAM's engagement/delivery manager, all reporting directly to me.
• Owned the full commercial vendor lifecycle for the $2.2M annual vendor budget via EVP-chartered strike team — staffing-mix decisions and per-role rate negotiation off EPAM's master rate card, monthly invoice approval, delivery accountability, and budget defense for 2025 renewal.
• Maintained 0 regrettable attrition through company reorg and industry-wide gaming layoffs; invited to present at Epic Corporate HQ — delivered sessions at company-wide Build Health summit and QA Leadership offsite.

Mobile AR developer; Pokémon GO has reached hundreds of millions of downloads since 2016 and remains one of the highest-grossing mobile games globally.

• Joined as the founding engineer on Development Productivity at Niantic — no CI/CD, no framework, no device lab. Built CI/CD infrastructure (GitLab) and server deployment platform on GCP + Kubernetes to support Pokémon GO, a globally distributed, high-concurrency backend serving hundreds of millions of users — patterns translate directly to AWS/Azure equivalents.
• Conceived Bill of Materials (BOM) for platform versioning across Niantic's multi-game platform (Pokémon GO and others) — built stakeholder consensus, defined the design, and partnered with a platform engineer who shipped it.
• Pre-merge validation didn't exist when I joined. Architected and built it in GitLab CI/CD so teams could catch issues before code integrated — no manual QA coordination needed, just self-service results.
• Environment setup was a recurring time sink. Built a one-click GCP + Kubernetes server deployment solution that got developers unblocked without filing a ticket — saved thousands of engineering hours annually.
• Evaluated all vendors, selected and finalized Headspin, and scaled the device lab from 4 → 48 iOS devices on-prem at Niantic, with additional access to hundreds of iOS/Android devices via Headspin public cloud — catching critical crashes before production; negotiated contracts delivering $200K+ in annual savings.
• Eliminated 8,000+ manual test hours annually (~$400K in savings) by architecting and building an API automation framework from scratch; engineered concurrent-session validation for the Raid feature, saving 1,200 engineering hours annually.
• Presented automation strategy and quarterly roadmap to Executive Leadership; grew team from 1 → 3 engineers; mentored 4 manual testers and an SDET intern who earned a full-time SDE offer.

Fortune 500 global logistics and freight forwarding company; ~$10B+ annual revenue with operations across 100+ countries.

• Founded and built the org's first test automation framework in Java from scratch — designed the framework architecture end-to-end covering API and UI automation layers, and integrated into CI/CD for continuous self-service testing.

Global software and cloud services company; one of the largest U.S. enterprises by revenue.

• Project Lead, Excel (2014–2016): Led team of 4 engineers to ship new Excel worksheet functions (TEXTJOIN, CONCAT, IFS, SWITCH) across Android, Windows 10, and Office Online (Azure) — full ownership from design through automation; designed worksheet function API reducing code redundancy by 90%.
• SDET II, MSN (2013–2014): Supported 24x7 on-call operations for MSN on Azure — a high-availability, globally distributed consumer platform serving millions; increased automation coverage by 40% and reduced execution time by 30%; built API automation for Cortana & Bing Travel, cutting testing time from days to hours.
• Test Lead, Office 365 (2010–2013, via HCL Technologies): Led HCL test team of 8 engineers delivering Live@Edu → Office 365 (Azure) migration validation across 27 locales; achieved 70%+ automation coverage using Page Object Model; extended solution to Office 365 web portal validation at global scale.