EA CTO Ken Moss leads 1,000 engineers building the tech for future games

When Ken Moss interviewed at Electronic Arts for the chief technology officer, he talked to 14 people. They were nervous about bringing in someone from outside the game industry, but they eventually got comfortable and hired him in 2014. It helped that he was a lifelong gamer.

Now Moss manages teams spread around the world who provide the central technology services behind EA’s games. He is in charge of the teams that make the Frostbite game engine, which is used across EA on games such as Battlefield and Madden NFL. Moss also supervises the security in games as well as the Origin digital services network and cloud technology. The central tech team has 1,000 people who work closely with other studios. Moss spoke in a fireside chat with Mike Vorhaus, president of Magid Advisors, about the future of games at our GamesBeat Summit 2018 conference.