Andrew Grant
Vice President, Creator Platform & Engineering
Cary, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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SeniorAndrew Grant is a seasoned engineering executive with 11+ years leading teams at the intersection of real-time graphics, games, and virtual production, now serving as Vice President of Creator Platform & Engineering at Epic Games. He has a track record of building high-performing teams and shipping ambitious projects—from leading Unreal Editor and Fortnite Creative engineering to pioneering virtual production tools and MetaHuman workflows at Lucasfilm and ILM. Comfortable presenting to C-levels, boards, and creative leaders, he blends hands-on technical contributions with strategic leadership across VR, mobile, networking, parallel processing, optimization, and tools/UI. His hands-on past includes porting Fortnite to mobile and driving weekly-feature workflows on a AAA title, showing a bias for delivery under tight cadence. An active practitioner of quality engineering, his open-source work on robustness and test-driven fixes for a popular community tool (soccer-cli) underscores a focus on maintainability and solid architecture. Based in Cary, NC, he brings a rare combination of creative-domain experience and production-grade software discipline.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (6)
unit-testing10
python10
http-request10
api-design9
command-line-interface8
testing8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
architv/soccer-cli
Mar 2017 - May 2017
:soccer: Football scores for hackers. :computer: A command line interface for all the football scores.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 12 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Andrew focused on improving the robustness and reliability of the soccer-cli application. They fixed a bug related to request status codes and implemented unit tests to validate data loading at startup, demonstrating a commitment to code quality. Furthermore, the user refactored the core `main.py` file by creating a `RequestHandler` class to improve code organization and maintainability, improving API interaction handling. This indicates a focus on both bug fixes and architecture.
pythonfootballcommand-line-interfacejavascriptfootball-scores
andyg7/FriendsDrinksInfrastructure
Mar 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 175 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
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