Nicholas Frechette
Principal Animation Programmer
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Frechette is a Principal Animation Programmer with 11+ years in AAA game engineering, currently shaping Unreal Engine's animation runtime at Epic Games. He is the author of the industry-leading Animation Compression Library (ACL) and the Realtime Math library, both optimized for minimal memory and maximum throughput across consoles, mobile, desktop and engines including Unreal. A performance obsessive, he brings low-level systems expertise—every byte and cycle matters—to animation compression, integration, and runtime design for clients like Epic, Autodesk, Eidos Montreal, Remedy, and Ubisoft. His open-source work ranks him among the top 1% on GitHub, reflecting rigorous engineering practices (CI, static analysis, unit/regression tests) and practical cross-platform deployments, with plans to extend ACL to glTF/WebAssembly. Based in Kingston, Ontario, he pairs deep R&D capabilities with hands-on consulting and production experience across large studios.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Université de Sherbrooke
French, English
Github Skills (67)
realtime10
unreal-engine-410
package-management10
compression10
cpp10
game-development10
game-engine10
animation10
cpp-library10
unreal-engine-510
conan10
alembic10
sjson10
math10
parse10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
nfrechette/acl
May 2017 - Jan 2023
Animation Compression Library
Contributions:25 releases, 36 reviews, 2127 commits in 5 years 9 months
animationcompressionanimation-compressiongame-engineanimation-3d
nfrechette/sjson-cpp
Jun 2017 - Aug 2022
An Simplified JSON (SJSON) C++ reader and writer
Contributions:11 releases, 298 commits, 153 PRs in 5 years 2 months
cppsjsonparsec-plus-plus
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