Mark Mandel
Staff Developer Advocate, Discord
Mark Mandel is listed as Staff Developer Advocate, Discord. Mark is scheduled to speak at GDC Festival of Gaming 2027 on 1 March 2027.
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About
Hailing from Australia, but now living in San Francisco, Mark Mandel is a Staff Developer Advocate improving developer experience on Discord's platform for game developers. He is also often known as the founder of two open source projects - Agones, a dedicated game server hosting and scaling platform and Quilkin, a UDP proxy for large-scale multiplayer game server deployments, both of which he founded while Tech Lead for Developer Relations at Google Cloud for almost 10 years. When not working, Mark spends his time pottering on open source. looking for new and interesting things he can do with cloud native technology and games, being distracted by dogs, and practising too many martial arts.