Marcus Webb

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.

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.

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.

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.