10 Take-Two Interactive engineering leaders
Executive vice president and CTO, senior vice president of software engineering, head of technology for games and senior director of engineering are among the roles held by these ten Take-Two Interactive engineering leaders. A reader can learn how engineering leaders work at Take-Two Interactive from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
Andriy Umryk
LinkedInExperience: Head of Technology - Games · Zynga, Take-Two Interactive
Andriy Umryk has been Head of Technology - Games at Zynga, Take-Two Interactive since April 2024, a role the profile headline gives as Vice President, Technology - Games. Andriy Umryk was CTO at Socialpoint from 2020 to 2024 and VP Technology there from 2018 to 2020, and Technical Director Games at Bigpoint GmbH from 2013 to 2018.
Brian Gardiner
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · 2K
Brian Gardiner has been Director of Engineering at 2K since September 2025, and the profile headline describes leading multi-platform game development pipelines. Brian Gardiner was Director Of Engineering at Infinity Ward from 2021 to 2025, at NortonLifeLock from 2019 to 2020 and at Symantec from 2013 to 2019.
David Kline
LinkedInExperience: Executive Vice President & CTO · Take-Two Interactive
David Kline has been Executive Vice President & CTO at Take-Two Interactive since July 2025. David Kline was Executive Vice President Technology and CTO at News Corp from 2020 to 2025 and Executive Vice President Technology and CTO/CIO at Viacom from 2010 to 2019, and held CIO roles at Discovery Inc and AMC Global Media.
Eng Keong Tay
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director Of Engineering · Take-Two Interactive
Eng Keong Tay has been Senior Director Of Engineering at Take-Two Interactive since April 2020. Eng Keong Tay was a Senior Vice President at DBS Bank from 2018 to 2020 and held Senior Development Director (2014–2018) and Development Director (2009–2014) roles at Electronic Arts (EA).
Jake Heutlinger
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director, Engineering · Take-Two Interactive
Jake Heutlinger has been Sr. Director, Engineering at Take-Two Interactive since April 2024. Jake Heutlinger held the titles Director, Systems Engineering (2023–2024), Manager, Systems Engineering (2020–2023), Systems Architect (2019–2020) and Systems Engineer (2016–2019) at the company.
Jeff C.
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering, SDS Tech · 2K
Jeff C. has been Director of Engineering, SDS Tech at 2K since January 2026. Jeff C. was Director of Engineering, Central Games Technology at Warner Bros. Games from 2023 to 2025, and held Principal Engineer and Technical Director roles at Lost Boys Interactive between 2022 and 2023.
Jeff Lesperance
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, SRE TOC & Observability · Take-Two Interactive
Jeff Lesperance has been Senior Director, SRE TOC & Observability at Take-Two Interactive since October 2025. Jeff Lesperance was Vice President, Automation & Reliability Engineering at Warner Bros. Discovery from 2022 to 2025 and at Discovery Inc from 2020 to 2022, and Senior Director, Site Reliability Engineering at Discovery Inc from 2019 to 2020.
Michael Payne
LinkedInExperience: Director, Engineering · Take-Two Interactive
Michael Payne has been Director, Engineering at Take-Two Interactive since May 2024 and was Sr Systems Engineering Manager, NA at the company from 2022 to 2024. Michael Payne was Sr Manager, IT Engineering NA at Zynga from 2019 to 2022 and Sr IT Manager - Global Infrastructure at ZeniMax Media from 2014 to 2019.
Richard Zhang
LinkedInExperience: Engineering Director · Take-Two Interactive
Richard Zhang has been Engineering Director at Take-Two Interactive since June 2023. Richard Zhang was a software engineer at Google from 2022 to 2023 and held staff and senior software engineer roles at LinkedIn between 2015 and 2022, and describes moving from building products to building teams that build products.
Rudi De Sousa
LinkedInExperience: SVP Software Engineering · Take-Two Interactive
Rudi De Sousa has been SVP Software Engineering at Take-Two Interactive since February 2026. Rudi De Sousa was Deputy CTO, SVP Infrastructure & Engineering at News Corp from 2022 to 2026, SVP Cloud Native Services and Compute there from 2019 to 2022, and Director of Engineering and Architecture at News UK from 2017 to 2019.
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