Dan Mcdonald
Sr Corporate Counsel, PlayStation Studios
Huntington Beach, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Mcdonald is a senior corporate counsel specializing in intellectual property, open source, and AI/ML matters for the video game and software industries, currently leading legal work for PlayStation Studios. With over a decade of in-house and firm experience at companies like Unity Technologies and DeNA, he has built trademark, patent and copyright programs, created OSS licensing frameworks, and advised on M&A, platform partnerships, and monetization/regulatory issues unique to games. He combines courtroom and transactional experience—from managing IP litigation to negotiating complex technology and licensing deals—with hands-on policy design for emerging machine learning initiatives. Based in Huntington Beach, he is equally comfortable translating technical risk into executable commercial strategies and designing incentive programs that align engineering and legal priorities. A practical problem-solver who “does stuff,” he brings a rare blend of deep gaming-industry IP know-how and operational experience implementing compliance and open-source policies at scale.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
LLM, Law, LLM, Law at University of LondonBachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Arts (BA) at University of ReginaArticled Student-at-Law, Articled Student-at-Law at Ridout & Maybee LLPDoctor of Law (JD), Doctor of Law (JD) at Dalhousie UniversityClerk to Justices, Clerk to Justices at Supreme Court of Nova Scotia
Japanese
Github Skills (16)
simulations10
intelligent10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
ml-agents10
serve10
reinforcement-learning10
unity3d10
machine-learning9
deep-learning9
imitation-learning9
ecma7
mono7
dotnet6
csharp6
cli6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
djmcdonald1/ml-agents
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
Unity Machine Learning Agents Toolkit
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 29 days
unity-machinedeep-learningagentsmachine-learninglearning-agents
djmcdonald1/GitTesting
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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