Mark Egesdal is a Owner and Principal Software Developer at Arc and Edge. He possess expertise in software development, algorithms. Colleagues describe him as "Mark is a unicorn, a great leader, engineer and teammate all in one. His depth of understanding of game servers, services and back-end technology was a huge boon for our team and helped us find the right solutions, both off the shelf and custom, to balance the needs of performance, gameplay and cost to running them in Live. He also was a huge advocate for quality, leading the charge on test automation and unit testing efforts internally and showing great leadership by teaching others how to write higher quality and less fragile code through refactoring aspects of our server and client project structure. Outside of being an amazing engineer, Mark led the direction and plans for our Live Services team. He advocated for improvements to how we track work, estimate work and manage our backlog and partnered closely with Production to build a great backlog of prioritized work for the Live Services team. His attention to detail, sequencing of work and assessment of gaps / risks in his area were super valuable to understanding scope and risk from a project perspective. Whenever asked to help define, design or plan work in his space, Mark leaned in and helped make things clearer for all across the project and company. Mark is an amazing teammate - working to mentor and support others across the team to do their best work. Often he would be pulled in multiple directions based on how our services fed into our client, and he did a great job communicating his ETAs and orienting towards unblocking others. He provided amazing feedback on how our engineering and team culture could evolve in retros and took direct steps to improving that himself. If you are looking for an amazing leader, an adept engineer and a good person to join your team and solve all of your game services needs, in addition to being a huge advocate for cross-discipline development and quality, then Mark is the perfect fit! I really enjoyed working with Mark and hope to be lucky enough to get the opportunity to work with him again in the future." and "Mark is one of the rare engineer I've had chance to work with. I recommend his expertise in solving complex engineering problems from first principle down to deep scientific analysis in a more pragmatic way."