Mark Waldron
Engineering Manager at DoorDash
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Waldron is an engineering manager with 12 years of experience leading teams that build scalable, user-focused products across messaging, chat, and self-service domains. He has guided End User platforms at Meta and Kustomer and currently manages engineering at DoorDash, combining hands-on JavaScript/Node.js/React expertise with cloud and data technologies like MongoDB, Redis, and AWS. As a former CTO of a fintech startup, he brings product-driven technical leadership and experience delivering an acquisition-ready codebase. Mark also contributes backend game-mechanics work to open-source projects, showing an appetite for complex system logic and edge-case problem solving. Based in New York, he’s known for translating customer-facing needs into reliable, high-performance services while mentoring engineers to ship with quality and velocity.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Mathematics at Purchase College, SUNYComputer Science, Computer Science at Fullstack Academy
English
Stackoverflow
16reputation
346reached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (6)
lua10
ffi10
logic10
sql8
htaccess6
apache6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
DarkstarProject/darkstar
Jun 2014 - May 2016
DEPRECATED - FFXI Server Emulator - See Project Topaz
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily focused on modifying and expanding game logic related to Final Fantasy XI. Their contributions involved adding and modifying abilities and item effects, specifically for the "Soul Voice" ability and "Blind Bolt" and other ranged attack effects. They also made changes to existing item effects, such as those for food items like Spaghetti Carbonara and Red Curry Bun. Furthermore, the user addressed various issues like respawn times and desynthesis recipes, highlighting their ability to work with a game's core mechanics and item systems.
emulatorffxiserver-emulatortopazfinal-fantasy
MarkWaldron/mlab-buddy
Dec 2017 - Mar 2022
Node integration with mLabs new API
Contributions:2 reviews, 42 commits, 7 PRs in 4 years 3 months
apinodejs
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