Mark Troyer is a self-motivated, passionate, full-stack, engineer with over 15 years in the games industry working on hit games such as FarmVille and FarmVille 2. Mark has experience leading engineers in large 80+ size teams, driving architecture discussions, costing features, and raising the quality of code. He also loves working on small teams, wearing many hats, and bringing games to life through well-written data driven systems.Mark is a Swiss army knife when it comes to technology which has earned him the nickname, "Troyer the Destroyer". Whether it's building gameplay systems, creating a game engine, creating scalable back-end services, setting up test frameworks, writing CI build scripts, integrating 3rd party libraries, or simply training others, Mark has a passion for them all.Mark started programming when he was 11 years old by reading programming books and teaching himself. Growing up he played lots of video games and knew he wanted to create them. Today, Mark still finds time to play lots of games including some of his favorites: Skyrim, Dark Souls, Factorio, and Mount & Blade.Specialty: Full Stack Game Systems ArchitectureLanguages: C#, C++, Java, Objective-C, Actionscript 3, PHP, Haxe, JavaScript, HTMLTechnology: Unity, OpenGL ES, DirectX, SDL, Apache, ASP.NET WebAPI 2, J2ME, BREW, MongoDB, Redis, CouchbaseTools: Visual Studio, Xcode, MonoDevelop, FlashDevelop, Bash, PowerShell, Jenkins, Ant, Jira, GitHub/Git, SVN, Mercurial, Parallels