Engineering Leader & Entrepreneur · Montréal

I build high-performing technology organizations from the ground up.

I align engineering, product, and business to deliver outcomes at scale. I’m Daniel Menard: founder, CEO, and engineering leader, now applying that experience to early-stage AI.

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Surfpunk — procedural waves

Procedural archipelagos with waves that refract along the shore. A taste of the systems work behind the projects below — click to generate a new island chain.

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Projects & contributions

A mix of the studio I built, the systems I'm proudest of, and the AI work I'm doing now. Several pages include a small interactive demo that references the engineering behind them.

Thyme.ly

An early-stage venture applying AI to family life, helping households manage the logistics of running a busy home.

Applied AIProduct

Double Stallion Games

Co-founded and scaled an independent game studio from 4 to 30 people. Shipped five titles, brokered partnerships with Riot Forge, Cartoon Network, and Nickelodeon, and built the leadership team behind it.

LeadershipOrganization-Building

Double Stallion Games

Convergence: A League of Legends Story

An action-platformer built with Riot Forge, where deterministic rewind technology lets time bend without breaking the simulation.

Rewind TechNetcode

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Building something ambitious?

I turn ambitious technical bets into shipped products, and I build the engineering organizations that keep delivering them. If that’s what your team needs, let’s talk.

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