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Marcus Webb

Co-Founder & CTO

I build companies from first commit to Series B. Three startups, two exits, one still going. Currently scaling Patchwork from 8 to 80 engineers.

About

I've been the first engineer three times. Each time I learned something different: how to ship when nobody's watching (startup #1), how to build a team that survives hypergrowth (startup #2), and how to say no to features that would kill you (startup #3). I write code every day, and I'll keep writing code as long as someone lets me.

Experience

Co-Founder & CTO

2022 – Present

Patchwork · Austin, TX

Developer infrastructure for multi-cloud deployments. Series B ($42M raised). Grew engineering from 2 to 38.

  • Architected a deployment orchestration engine processing 14K deploys/day across AWS, GCP, and Azure with 99.97% success rate.
  • Hired and structured three engineering teams (platform, product, reliability) with a 94% annual retention rate.
  • Led the technical due diligence for Series A and B; both closed in under 6 weeks.
  • Open-sourced the core scheduling algorithm; 5.2K GitHub stars in the first year.
GoRustKubernetesTerraformgRPC

VP Engineering → CTO

2018 – 2022

Lattice (acquired by Rippling, 2022) · San Francisco, CA

Employee #4 at an HR-tech startup. Promoted from VP Eng to CTO during Series C.

  • Scaled engineering from 6 to 120 across four offices while maintaining a deploy-to-production cadence of 40+ times/day.
  • Built the real-time analytics engine powering the performance review product used by 4,000 companies.
  • Led the SOC 2 Type II certification effort; completed in 5 months with zero critical findings.
  • Negotiated the technical integration plan for the Rippling acquisition, covering 200+ microservices.
TypeScriptReactNode.jsPostgreSQLAWS

Co-Founder & CTO

2015 – 2018

Stacktrace (acquired by Datadog, 2018) · San Francisco, CA

APM startup focused on distributed tracing for microservices. Acquired by Datadog for $28M.

  • Wrote the first 80K lines of code: a distributed tracing agent in Go that ran in production at 200+ companies.
  • Grew from 0 to $3.8M ARR in 30 months with a 4-person engineering team.
  • Led the technical integration with Datadog's APM suite post-acquisition.
GoKafkaClickHouseKubernetes

Software Engineer, SRE

2012 – 2015

Google · Mountain View, CA

Site reliability for Google Cloud Storage. On-call for a service handling 2M+ rps.

  • Designed and implemented the automated capacity planning system for GCS, reducing over-provisioning by 22%.
  • Built the internal load-testing framework used by 12 SRE teams.
C++PythonBorgSpanner

Stack

Languages

  • Go
  • Rust
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • C++

Infrastructure

  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Azure
  • Nomad

Data

  • PostgreSQL
  • ClickHouse
  • Kafka
  • Redis
  • Spanner

Leadership

  • Team building
  • M&A integration
  • Board reporting
  • Technical due diligence
  • SOC 2

Education

Talks & Writing