Lucas Carlson
Staff Engineer, Applied AI at Zapier
Carlsbad, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolLucas Carlson is a veteran software leader and entrepreneur who has spent over two decades turning cloud and AI innovations into enterprise-scale solutions. He founded AppFog, the first standalone PHP PaaS, which scaled to millions of developers and was acquired by CenturyLink, and co-founded MOG, the streaming service that evolved into Apple Music. Today he co-founded LEADx and serves as CTO, architecting an AI-powered leadership coaching platform that serves tens of thousands of managers, while also contributing as Staff Engineer, Applied AI at Zapier to advance AI connectivity across 8,000+ apps. His work spans the full AI/ML stack, from LLM orchestration and RAG pipelines to production ML infrastructure and responsible AI practices, with a focus on deploying enterprise-grade AI at scale. He thrives at the intersection of product, engineering, and strategy, leading cross-functional teams to deliver AI solutions from concept to production and shaping platform-level tooling like Model Context Protocol. Based in Carlsbad, California, he holds a Physics degree from Reed College and has a long history of turning ambitious visions into practical, auditable tech.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Physics, Bachelor, Physics at Reed College
Stackoverflow
11reputation
13kreached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (30)
classifier10
etsy-api10
bayesian10
etsy10
aol9
hotmail9
gmail8
machine-learning8
feed8
thunderbird8
yahoo7
api7
skype7
discourse7
reader7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cardmagic/classifier
Apr 2018 - May 2021
A general classifier module to allow Bayesian and other types of classifications.
Contributions:4 releases, 4 commits, 17 PRs in 3 years 1 month
classificationsbayesianclassifiermachine-learning
cloudenvhq/cli
Oct 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:115 commits, 105 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.