About George
George Mandis has been a director of engineering, engineering manager, a full-stack software engineer, consultant, creative technologist, conference speaker and handful of other things over the course of his 20+ year career. He has been having fun with computers since he was about twelve and doing so professionally since 2005, when he started his own consultancy out of Portland, Oregon. He is currently the head of engineering at Starlight.
George has spoken and led workshops at conferences all over the world, from Microsoft Build to neighborhood meetups, from Nepal to New York, presenting mostly on topics of JavaScript and what he likes to call "joyful programming." His other educational and advocacy efforts include running an introductory web development bootcamp through a local community college in Portland since 2015 intended to serve traditionally under-represented people in the tech industry, one-on-one mentoring and teaching creative programming and electronics classes to children and adults.
In 2020 he spent the first few months of the year attending a self-directed educational retreat in New York City at the Recurse Center. It was one of the best decisions he's made in a long time. He went back in 2026 for a mini sabbatical. Also a good decision.
He is a seasoned travel enthusiast who's run marathons in North Korea and Svalbard and feels moderately proud of his functionally awful Serbo-Croatian.
Beyond this site you can find some of his work on CSS Tricks, GitHub and YouTube.
Interested in working with me? Please read more about hiring me or visit my consultancy at Less Software
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