Chris Normand
Engineering Manager at Respawn Entertainment
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolChris Normand is an engineering manager and software quality leader with a decade-plus track record building teams, automation platforms, and tooling for live-service games and mobile titles. Currently leading Quality Engineering for Apex Legends at Respawn, he focuses on gameplay AI-driven test automation to accelerate content delivery while maintaining stability for a global audience. Previously at EA/PopCap he owned developer toolsets, mobile performance telemetry, and large device farms, and he has hands-on experience across CI, profiling, and embedded test frameworks. A pragmatic people manager and product owner, he hires and develops SDET talent and drives cross-studio consolidation of tooling to reduce duplication and raise QA technical capability. Based in Austin, he brings deep Java and C# roots plus a systems-thinking Industrial Engineering background, and is the kind of leader who balances family and play—father, husband, gamer—while keeping teams focused on measurable quality outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Industrial Engineering, B.S., Industrial Engineering at Louisiana State University
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Github Skills (41)
foundry10
vtt10
gcp9
rpg9
hud9
rotate8
eclipse-ide7
issue-tracking7
realms7
character-sheet7
ringcentral6
java6
tabletop5
azerothcore5
ruler5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
crnormand/gcs
Jun 2019 - Dec 2019
GURPS Character Sheet
Contributions:38 commits, 35 pushes, 17 branches in 5 months
ltsazerothcoresheetrealmscharacter
crnormand/gurps
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
Implementing a GURPS 4e game aid for Foundry VTT
Contributions:157 releases, 1 review, 1967 commits in 2 years 3 months
foundryvttaidgurpsfoundry-vtt
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