# Mario Zechner Austrian software developer, coach, and angel investor based in Graz. 15+ years of experience spanning academia, startups, industry, and open-source development. Expertise in applied machine learning, compiler engineering, and computer graphics. Creator of [[Pi Mono]] and libGDX. ## Notable projects - **[[Pi Mono]]**: Minimal, extensible agent harness. A small core you adapt with extensions, skills, prompt templates and themes, bundled and shared as Pi packages, with native [[Model Context Protocol (MCP)|MCP]] support since 1.0. It started as a minimal CLI coding agent in `badlogic/pi-mono`; with 1.0 (2026), the project moved to the `earendil-works` GitHub org (`earendil-works/pi`) - **libGDX**: Cross-platform Java game development framework (Duke's Choice Award winner 2014). Open-sourced in 2010, one of the most popular Java game frameworks - **Heisse Preise**: Austrian food price comparison platform (featured in Wired) - **Spine**: 2D skeletal animation tool for game development ## Other activities - Angel investor in early-stage startups - Pro-bono mentor for entrepreneurs - Technical workshops and consulting - Published author and conference speaker - University-level teaching ## Quotes <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/quote AND [[]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## Books <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/book AND [[]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## Related - [[Pi Mono]] - [[AI Agents]] ## References - Website: https://mariozechner.at/ - GitHub: https://github.com/badlogic - Mastodon: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@badlogic - Pi website: https://pi.dev - Pi source code (1.0+): https://github.com/earendil-works/pi