Eric Karl

Eric Karl has a diverse and extensive work experience in the software and gaming industry. Eric is currently working as a Principal Solutions Architect at Northwestern Medicine since November 2022. Prior to that, they held the position of Principal Engineer at Counterplay Games from December 2020 to November 2022, and also served as the Lead Gameplay Programmer from February 2020 to November 2020.

Before joining Counterplay Games, Eric worked at Google as a Staff Software Engineer from November 2018 to February 2020. Prior to that, they held the positions of Senior Software Engineer from November 2015 to October 2018 and Software Engineer from November 2013 to October 2015.

Eric also gained valuable experience at other companies including Munkadoo Games LLC, where they worked as a Developer/Manager from May 2011 to November 2013, and Microsoft Corporation, where they held the position of SDE II from September 2008 to January 2011.

Furthermore, Eric had internship experiences as an SDE Intern at Microsoft Corporation in 2007, and as a Gameplay Programmer Intern at Insomniac Games in 2006 and 2005, specializing in visual effects and general gameplay programming.

Lastly, Eric started their career in the gaming industry as a QA tester at Activision in 2004.

Eric Karl attended Stanford University from 2005 to 2008, where they obtained a Bachelor's degree in CS, NLP, and Linguistics.