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.
10 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 (31)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
crnormand/gcs
Jun 2019 - Dec 2019
GURPS Character Sheet
Contributions:38 commits, 35 pushes, 17 branches in 5 months
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crnormand/Spells
Feb 2022 - Jul 2025
Contributions:119 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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