Mark Lohstroh
Principal Software Engineer at Giga Energy
Plano, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMark Lohstroh is a Principal Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building scalable game and media systems, currently leading engineering at Giga Energy after a multi-year tenure at Discord. He has shipped Unity3D/WebAssembly games embedded in large clients and architected AWS/GCP backends serving millions of monthly users, and at Samsung created server-side ad insertion and streaming infrastructure that generated tens of millions in monthly revenue. Mark combines deep game-engine know-how—console ports, performance tuning, and tool development—with robust cloud-native skills like Kubernetes, ECS, and high-throughput proxies. Known for tackling preproduction architecture and migration projects, he also built services that supported over a million concurrent logins and containerized complex 3D pipelines for scalable streaming. Based in Plano, Texas, he pairs hands-on implementation with systems-level thinking to deliver performant, production-grade platforms.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas
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Github Skills (73)
large-files9
mapper9
database9
entity-framework9
eve9
poco9
dotnet-core9
orm9
eve-online9
csharp9
esi9
versioning8
dotnet8
sql8
git-lfs8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mlohstroh/tarynn
May 2013 - Jun 2015
Contributions:133 commits, 14 PRs, 49 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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mlohstroh/resume
Feb 2019 - Sep 2022
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
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