Frederic Loranger

Responsible for defining the long-term strategy and technical roadmap for our platform services, which are leveraged by our studios. Establish best practices and robust SDLC processes to operate our services efficiently, reliably, and at scale. Specifically, ensure the platform can scale to accommodate traffic surges during game launches and marketing events. Participate in quarterly planning to manage timelines, dependencies, and risks across teams. Build high-performing, diverse teams and coach senior and lead engineers to support career development and succession planning. Collaborate across the organization to review architectures for legal, privacy, and security compliance.

Responsible for defining the technical strategy and direction of existing and future core technologies used to power 2K's platform services. Establish best practice, assess and mitigate risk, and provide guidance by spotting areas of improvement, key success metrics, and opportunity for innovation and development excellence.

Team lead in the Core Technology Group working on the design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring of web services tailored to the gaming industry and leveraged by internal Studios.

Technical lead for the next generation of Autodesk subscription management solution (https://manage.autodesk.com).

Team lead for a small engineering group working on the design, implementation, and deployment of a manufacturing data service targeting the additive manufacturing market.

Led the design and implementation of new e-commerce web services driving the purchase of digital and physical goods for the Autodesk Consumer group.

Managed a mid-size engineering team for the Consumer Group including all staffing and project management. The team provided web services, tools, and web applications used primarily by makers, students, and enthusiasts, such as Tinkercad (https://www.tinkercad.com).

Managed a small engineering team within Autodesk Research focusing on disruptive innovations to create business opportunities for Autodesk.

Spearheaded research projects for application streaming, application virtualization, 3D graphics remoting, GPU virtualization, and a SaaS platform for 3D graphics intensive applications.

Managed a small engineering team responsible for delivering platform tools and software used for visualization and post-processing of SPICE-simulation data for the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industry.