Charles Egenbacher Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA, US

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Responsible for project management and risk management across five Engine teams to ensure the timely delivery of engine features to AAA game industry customers on PC, console, and mobile platforms. Highlights:
• Established a scalable feature request ingestion process that yielded a better customer service experience. Resulted in requests to replicate on other teams
• Created a new online service team to own Fortnite server performance and memory management. Diplomatically transferred responsibility from the Engine org to the Fortnite org. Resulted in doubling UE Networking’s.
• Led UE audio development for the “Electric Dreams” State of Unreal stage demo at GDC 2023 Responsibilities included:
• Implementing sustainable development practices for over 40 cross-functional team members
• Developing engine features for first-party product launches such as Fortnite Battle Royale and UEFN

Bellevue, WA

• Production lead for three Engine teams through multiple release cycles, product launches, and live demos. This epoch is characterized by implementing new processes across the company and going where needed, often.
• Successfully replaced Fortnite's audio engine on six platforms without live incident
• Implemented a standardized quarterly planning process for all Unreal Engine teams that resulted in faster, higher quality planning for engineering leads
• Established a development framework for the team building Verse, a programming language created by Epic
• Rebuilt and managed Unreal Engine's public roadmap. Evolved the update pipeline for five years before transferring ownership to a new product management discipline
• Established support pipeline for UDN support requests. Drove measurable improvements in support velocity that resulted in requests to scale the process to all Engine teams

Los Angeles, California

This is where I learned to lead engineering teams of all shapes and sizes.Digital product lead for three engineering teams: In-Client Store Team (backend services, web apps), Events Team (backend services, web apps), and Esports Features Team (web apps).

Los Angeles, California

Greater San Diego Area

• Organized the animation pipeline, wrangled assets, and supported motion capture shoots on the following next generation Playstation 4 titles:
• The Order: 1866
• Killzone Shadow Fall
• Knack

Plano, TX

Learned how to develop games with teams of artists, designers, and engineers. We had an incredible amount of fun, presented our games at GDC, and re-learned the definition of "sleep" after graduation.

Master’S Degree, Production & Level Design

Activities and Societies: Student Activities Committee - Responsible for organizing student events and extra curricular activities.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Economics

Activities and Societies: Economics Society - Chief Information Officer