Marc Lebrun

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Fractional CTO and Director @ Prometheus Sherpas
Sacramento, CA, US
About Marc Lebrun

Engineering Management
 - Software Product Development
 - Technology InnovationI wrangle innovative technologies into products, and I manage & up-level talented tech teams.Engineering Leader: Managed core software development (programming, QA, doc, release, support) products and services at Symbolics, Software Publishing Corp, Electrogig BV, McAfee Associates, Vungle, Chartboost, Sonic Solutions, Stitch Fix, Ticketfly/Pandora, JASK.ai, Flow Kana data.world etc. Social media, discovery, search, algorithms and data services for web site with over 300 million worldwide users for Tagged.com. Managed hardware groups at Symbolics Inc. and Electrogig BV. Certified Scrum Master.Advanced Technology Director: Manage labs, project leaders and brilliant individuals for Autodesk and Adobe in virtual reality (VR), security, media, graphics, signal processing and programming systems; technology transfers, products, publications and patents.Software Developer, Architect: Write production code in Java, C++, Lisp, assembly and firmware. Also coded in Scala, JavaScript, Python, Ruby-on-Rails, PHP and others. Work product deployed from super-computers to PCs, devices, enterprises, high-traffic web sites, RESTful API software services (eg LAMP, SQL/noSQL, SaaS) and clouds (Amazon EC2/S3/etc). Domain-driven design, architecture and evolution of complex systems products across multiple releases (Symbolics, Siebel, start-ups).Scientist, Researcher, Hacker: Staff at top research sites (Stanford, MIT, Xerox PARC). Published in signal processing and math journals (JAES, MAA, CMJ, JIS etc). Trustee of math foundation OEISF.org; my Erdös number is 3. Co-created the original Apple Macintosh and architected and coded the demonstration prototype. Organize Tech Forums, public professional programs, Hackers conferences.Professional: Worked at all scales from start-ups to Fortune 50. Led teams of ~30+ reports, with site-scale responsibility for larger units (~70+) with international teams (Europe, Asia, Americas, Africa). Reported to C-level in four public companies (Symbolics, Autodesk, McAfee and Sonic Solutions) plus many other CEOs, CTOs, VPs and General Managers. Enjoy working with marketing, sales, product managers, consulting clients and customers.

Marc Lebrun's Current Company Details
Prometheus Sherpas

Prometheus Sherpas

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Fractional CTO and Director
Sacramento, CA, US
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Marc Lebrun Work Experience Details
  • Prometheus Sherpas
    Fractional Cto And Director
    Prometheus Sherpas
    Sacramento, Ca, Us
  • Headlamp Inc.
    Interim Vp Ai & Technology
    Headlamp Inc. Oct 2020 - Present
    Boston, Ma, Us
    Advisor to CEO. Recruiting, placement, transition, career guidance and coaching platform serving returning special-ops veterans. Define & guide technology & business strategy, architecture, implementation, product management; recruit & mentor engineering team. (Over 1 out of every 12 US workers is a vet)
  • Prometheus Sherpas
    Director
    Prometheus Sherpas Jan 2021 - Present
    Develop advanced data systems utilizing multiple AI technologies: symbolic & logic processing, machine learning, NLP & LLMs integrated via semantic knowledge graph. Projects include creating update service pipeline for large US Government agency (~30 million elements per month RDF triple store database; Lisp, Python, Linux, etc)
  • Data.World
    Director Of Product Engineering
    Data.World Apr 2021 - Feb 2024
    Austin, Texas, Us
    Lead accelerated development and on-time launch of new agile data governance suite including customer-configurable business-process workflow engine and data enrichment automations. Also lead operation of enterprise-scale advanced SaaS data pipeline serving ~150 billion-edge knowledge graphs using Scala/Spark EMR in AWS cloud in collaboration with company’s largest customer. Held expanded responsibility to direct additional teams including core data catalog platform, APIs, EU ops expansion, analytics etc as needed by senior leadership. Responsible for planning, budgeting, staffing, engineering, ops, technical customer support, etc.
  • Flow Kana
    Vp Engineering
    Flow Kana May 2019 - Jun 2020
    Redwood Valley, California, Us
    Lead the technology team developing innovative supply chain, manufacturing and distribution systems connecting diverse small, decentralized, sustainable cannabis farms into the California market. Report to C-level (CEO/CFO/CPO) coordinating operations and integration for IT, regulatory, financial, planning, production, logistics, sales & marketing, websites and APIs, data analytics, tools and other business information systems. Introduced metrics-driven tech ops service and enterprise architecture perspectives. Mentor and develop people & process, lead/coach agile development and facilitate cross-departmental teamwork and strategy.
  • Chartboost
    Data Engineering Manager
    Chartboost Jul 2018 - Apr 2019
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Lead reboot and growth (quadrupled headcount) of world-class data engineering & analytics platform team, reporting to VPE, CEO and CTO. Reduced infrastructure spend by over $1 million annually. Addressed significant immediate reliability, stability and privacy (GDPR). Lead new data architecture initiatives. Chartboost handles tens of thousands of requests per second from hundreds of millions of mobile devices worldwide, totaling several billion events per day, backed by petabyte-scale data warehousing. AWS cloud data technology stack environment incorporates Python, Java/Scala, SQL, EC2, Spark (incl. streaming), EMR, Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, Impala, Cloudera, Qubole, Pepperdata, Tableau, S3, MySQL, Redshift, DynamoDB, Glacier, Postgres, MongoDB, Airflow, Jenkins, Puppet, Spinnaker, Datadog, Pagerduty, Sqoop, Kakfa, ELK, and other modern technology components.
  • Jask
    Senior Director Engineering
    Jask Jan 2018 - Jun 2018
    Austin, Texas, Us
    JASK.ai’s vision is to evolve autonomous cybersecurity, by delivering advanced software systems supporting Security Operations Center analysts through C-level decision makers. Reporting to CTO & VP Engineering, building and managing a great engineering team at SF HQ, groups spanning core application product development, data science/AI insight, DevOps and security domain experts working in a modern cloud technology stack (AWS/Scala/Python managed services etc). Strategy, team facilitation, organization, people.
  • Ticketfly
    Engineering Manager, Platforms
    Ticketfly Aug 2016 - Sep 2017
    Ca, California, Us
    (subsidiary of Pandora/to be acquired by Eventbrite) Manage Platform core engineering chapter (Spotify-like agile matrix org model). Lead teams contributing to development of company’s core ticketing engine, AWS cloud platform, permissions infrastructure, external APIs and traffic management technology and other strategic and tactical technology projects. Implementations in Scala (functional actor paradigm) evolving from a Grails/JVM app. Mentoring and career development.
  • Stitch Fix
    Manager Online Data Platforms
    Stitch Fix Sep 2015 - Jun 2016
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    Architecture, design, development and production deployment of extensive sophisticated robust highly scalable microservices and online data platform infrastructure, empowering and bridging our large internal partner Data Science and core application Engineering client teams: including recommendation algorithm framework, rule engine for CRM and BPM, metadata systems for survey data management and CMS, time series and other development & BI tools & analysis engines, A/B testing systems, etc. Stack leverages Python, Java, Scala, Spark, Elastic Search and a variety of Amazon Web Services and other modern cloud technologies.
  • Bandpage
    Director, Engineering, Backend
    Bandpage Apr 2015 - Aug 2015
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    BandPage maximizes the monetization from connecting bands with their fans. It provides a merchandising and content management framework used by over 500,000 artists, including the biggest names in the music business, and connects them with their hundreds of millions of fans through the top music and e-commerce services. Primarily responsible for leading the backend development team, which develops and maintains the core RESTful APIs, microservices and related subsystems and data content, coordinating with the front-end, data science, infrastructure and QA engineering and Product management teams and providing extensive support for customers, partners and business development initiatives. Currently refactoring the core system’s database-oriented click-and-conversion persistence model into a performant and modern streaming lambda architecture. All cloud-based, Amazon Web Services, Java, chronos/mesos, marathon, dropwizard, etc. stack.
  • Vungle
    Director Of Engineering
    Vungle Aug 2014 - Mar 2015
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    Vungle is an online AdTech service focused on delivering video ads on-demand to mobile games and other apps. Vungle also operates an online real-time bidding exchange marketplace for advertising content and placement. Reporting to VP, responsible for about 15 ICs and one manager grouped into four “core” software engineering teams: Ad Serving (complex multi-function cloud/server stack), Mobile Client Developer SDK (Apple iOS & Android platforms), Dashboard (web-based admin & customer tools) and Data Engineering, Architecture & Infrastructure (internal systems data mesh, interfaces to Data Science & reporting subsystems, etc). Brought in modern Agile development & planning processes, improved practices (eg unit testing) and laid groundwork for modern methodologies such as integrated QA/test, Continuous Integration and automated deployment and monitoring. Key initiatives for increasing quality, reliability, availability and scalability (to one billion ad requests daily); initiated integrated full architecture documentation effort. Organizational development, growth, Tech Talks and other thought-leadership.
  • If(We)
    Engineering Manager, Search & Advanced Data Services
    If(We) Apr 2012 - Aug 2014
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    Responsible for all Search technology, new development and high-availability (HA) online operations for Tagged.com, a Top 10 profitable social discovery site with 300 million members and 20 million monthly users (comparable to LinkedIn or Google+). Over 3 million Daily Active Users generate more than 500 million search engine transactions per day. Architected and implemented a unification of 16 diverse application-specific search tiers within a new modern RESTful API framework, enabling eliminating client spaghetti code, hardware and software cost reductions and new revenue-generating search-powered web and mobile products and features (also soon to be launched as an open-source project).Manage architecture, software, platforms and infrastructure for high performance Solr Cloud clusters and distributed services layer supporting diverse client tiers across research, testing development, stage and production environments.Lead teams (including off-shore) in ongoing operations and development of integrated Search-As-A-Service (SaaS) REST API microservice platform and associated Advanced Data Services (including “big data” elastic, cloud, graph, natural language (NLP), machine learning (ML) & semantic search, algorithms & prototyping) for innovative and profitable new Product, Social Discovery, Relevance, Security, Analytics and Quality objectives.Contribute experienced project management (Agile/Scrum), software engineering best practices (including domain-driven design, TDD/FDD/unit test, iterative agile development, algorithms, build-quality-in) mentoring, growing team and technology vision, strategy and delivery.
  • Fixpoint Inc.
    Director, Principal Consultant
    Fixpoint Inc. May 2010 - Apr 2012
    Galanta, Slovenská Republika, Sk
    Director & Principal in Fixpoint Inc., a consultancy delivering advanced software engineering and management services to from mature organizations through start-ups. Developed enterprise deployments and web services based on commercial business rules systems, OWL/Protégé, and other semantic web technologies. Client engagements included Wells Fargo Capital Markets, Hoovers (D&B) and stealthy start-ups. See also Publications section for original mathematical research references.
  • Adobe Systems
    Principal Scientist / Manager Advanced Product Development
    Adobe Systems Jan 2008 - May 2010
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    Direct a stellar team of Scientists and Engineers in the Advanced Product Development group for Dynamic Media (video, audio, web, animation) with focus on the product-after-next, and beyond. Director-level responsibility for innovation pipeline for products. In parallel, Principal Scientist grade indicates top 5% technical track, Architect-level etc. Work areas include next-generation video, audio and animation technologies ranging from broadcast and motion picture through desktop and consumer. R&D in: enterprise-scale and cloud-based media production, democratized broadcasting, image content analysis, search, monetization, media metadata, semantic web, stereoscopic 3D, codecs, software CPU/GPU architectures and advanced programming technologies. Team filed several dozen patents, includes Oscar and Emmy winners for technical achievement, Internet pioneers, software gurus and other high-impact talents. Internal consulting resource, mentoring, organizing distinguished speakers programs, corporate technical summit activities, etc.
  • Powerset
    Senior Scientist Engineer
    Powerset Feb 2007 - Aug 2007
    Us
    Develop algorithms and tools for massively parallel distributed indexing pipeline for disruptive new natural language search engine. Involved Java, JSON, Ruby-on-Rails RESTful resources for Amazon EC2/S3 cloud system, Hadoop, map-reduce, test-driven-development.
  • Fixpoint Inc.
    Chief Technologist, Consultant, Principal
    Fixpoint Inc. Jul 2002 - Feb 2007
    Galanta, Slovenská Republika, Sk
    Principal in Fixpoint Inc., a consultancy delivering advanced software engineering and management services to from mature organizations through start-ups. Developed native Java (J2EE) constraint engine for object-oriented business process management in finance, mortgage and insurance, as well as deployments based on commercial business rules, semantic web, configuration and 3D graphics packages. Client engagements include Resonant Software, Tavant / Ameriquest, Ilog / Network Appliance and stealthy start-ups.Also Principal in Adozu Inc., developer of active-RFID based asset-awareness and real-time location systems (RTLS) and web services.
  • Siebel Systems, Inc.
    Senior Software Engineer
    Siebel Systems, Inc. May 1996 - Jul 2002
    Austin, Texas, Us
    Advanced technology "guru" with responsibilities ranging from architecture to hands-on code development (primarily C++). Originally reported to CTO with pure technology charter (no management duties) to incorporate AI capabilities into Siebel's SFA and CRM business software systems. Accomplished a range of assignments as company grew from 100-emloyee pre-IPO start up to 8000-employee global public company, including architecting all major releases of product configurator engine and modeling system. Also wrote company's first automated test suite in Visual Basic that took online product definition database and generated full external coverage sequences.
  • Blue Dot
    Principal
    Blue Dot Apr 1995 - May 1996
    Leeds, West Yorkshire, Gb
    Clients including Sonic Solutions Inc (interim-management assignment reporting to CEO, responsible for hardware and software development) Protozoa Inc, Asymmetrix Inc and Franz Inc.Implemented powerful, easy-to-use, net-enabled, compiled, object-oriented Visual Basic "clone" for developing web applications...pre-Java![NB: there is a California Corp. also named "Blue Dot"--this was a Delaware Corp. consulting partnership]
  • Electrogig
    Vice-President, R&D
    Electrogig Mar 1994 - Apr 1995
    Reported to CEO. Responsible for all product development and technology worldwide (offices in Amsterdam, San Francisco & Hong Kong)—from ~$1M list price "virtual set" (VR/AR) graphics supercomputer & video broadcast systems, through 3D graphics & animation products on multiple workstation platforms (SGI, Sun, HP etc) & new electronic delivery & production-flow management products & patents.
  • Software Publishing Corporation
    Director, R&D
    Software Publishing Corporation Feb 1993 - Mar 1994
    Reported to VP R&D. Directly supervised ~35 positions with overall responsibility for remote site (Madison WI) ~70 total employees including software engineering, QA & documentation, service. Deliverables: Desktop Conferencing & Network Presentation Product for Windows, Graphic Visualization Engine for Windows, Word Processor (off-shore development) for DOS and Image Cataloging Product for Windows.
  • Xvelope
    Principal
    Xvelope Aug 1992 - Feb 1993
    Consultancy specializing in management services, development, multimedia titles and emerging technologies. Included interim VP R&D for McAfee Associates, reporting to President/COO, responsible for all engineering of public software company. Reorganized R&D into functions and product groups; established QA, documentation and technical operations; initiated product management and development processes. Deliverables: Electronic Software Catalog & Distribution for DOS & Windows and Anti-Virus Suite for DOS, Windows, OS/2 & Novell Netware. Independenly designed Educational/Creativity Game for SEGA Genesis, released Fall '94. Patent prior-art consulting in digital signal processing.
  • Autodesk
    Director, Advanced Technology
    Autodesk Jan 1990 - Aug 1992
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    Reported to President/CEO. Supervised ~30 positions, including software designers, developers & documentors, product and business managers, marketing and telesales, academic interns, company librarian & professional and strategic services staff. Annual budget US $3M. Actuals managed within 1%. Diverse deliverables included: * Multimedia / Hypertext—multi-platform (DOS, Windows, Mac, Unix) authoring package, * Virtual Reality— (VR) C++ class library (& 600pp documentation) & product plan, covering features, marketing, pricing, channels, support 3rd-party program etc.* Retail Educational Software Product Line Titles. Responsible for marketing (advertising, telesales, etc) and P&L—exceeded revenue targets by >50%. * Future technology evaluations: Scenarios (Global Business Network methodology), demonstration prototypes, research projects, new business analysis.* Corporate R&D Services: builds, technical library, print, media & online databases, Technical Forums.
  • Symbolics
    Senior Staff Member / Manager, Systems Development (Graphics Division)
    Symbolics Jan 1987 - Jan 1990
    Singapore, Sg
    Reported to VP/Division General Manager. Responsible for delivering all hardware and software up to color windowing system, including first commercial HDTV intelligent framebuffer including 3 semi-custom ASICs. Publicly showed working prototypes 6 weeks after power-up at SIGGRAPH. Also developed hardware, firmware and software for board-level graphics accelerator and proprietary array processor.
  • Symbolics
    Manager, Regional Technical Operations
    Symbolics Jan 1982 - Jan 1987
    Singapore, Sg
    Dual report to Vice-President, R&D and Vice-President, Operations & Finance (CFO). Opened company's first field office. General hardware and software product development, sales support, customer service and cross-functional responsibility to top management. Supported record-setting computation of pi.
  • Xerox Parc, Apple, Mit, Stanford, (Various)
    Member Technical Staff / Systems Programmer
    Xerox Parc, Apple, Mit, Stanford, (Various) Jan 1970 - Jan 1982
    Norwalk, Connecticut, Us
    Xerox Corp. Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Palo Alto, CAApple Computer, Cupertino, CA (first Macintosh research software developer)Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge, MAArtificial Intelligence Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CADymax / People's Computer Company, Menlo Park, CAPortola Institute, Menlo Park, CAIndependent writer and programmer.Systems programming and microcode support to researchers in AI, Cognitive & Computer Science, Advanced Architectures (robotics, "connectionist" research, supercomputers), mathematical applications (numerical library for S-1 supercomputer for Lawrence Livermore National Lab), real-time signal/image processing, digital typography (spline & raster algorithms). Helped found, edit and/or contributed to: Dr. Dobbs' Journal, CoEvolution Quarterly, Computer Music Journal, People's Computer Company Magazine and others. Founded and ran public-access non-profit educational computer centers.

Marc Lebrun Skills

Software Engineering Software Development Distributed Systems Cloud Computing Agile Methodologies Saas Algorithms Enterprise Software Start Ups Scrum Java Mathematics Programming Artificial Intelligence C++ Javascript Architecture Software Design Analytics E Commerce Program Management Web Services Technical Leadership Entrepreneurship Enterprise Architecture Software Project Management Business Intelligence Team Leadership User Experience Digital Media Html Modeling Oop Scalable Architecture Requirements Analysis Semantic Web Optimization Game Design High Performance Computing Soa Signal Processing Search Metadata Agile Process Development Product Strategy Scala Management Leadership Software Development Life Cycle Web 2.0 Ruby On Rails Hadoop J2ee

Marc Lebrun Education Details

  • Stanford University
    Stanford University
  • Goddard College
    Goddard College

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