Anthony Marcar is an experienced technology leader and serial founder with roughly 15–20 years building scalable systems, currently serving as CTO in Sydney. He has led engineering teams and shipped high-throughput, real-time platforms at Walmart after selling his startup Grabble, and later returned to the startup world leading payments and marketplace product at Kaddy. Anthony blends hands-on engineering—contributions to Gatsby adding OpenTracing-based observability and tackling incremental/parallel builds—with strategic product and platform thinking for ML and cloud-native deployments. He’s built GPU-autoscaling pipelines, GraphQL services, and distributed transaction systems capable of handling thousands of TPS, and holds a strong track record of turning prototypes into production. Known for pragmatic technical mentorship (Startmate) and prolific patent-backed engineering at scale, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with deep systems experience. He also has an uncommon background combining software development with music composition, reflecting a creative approach to engineering problems.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange for B. Comp Sci Games Development AI Ethnomusicology, Exchange for B. Comp Sci Games Development AI Ethnomusicology at University of Alberta
Bachelor of Computer Science Software Development Music Composition and Production, Bachelor of Computer Science Software Development Music Composition and Production at University of Wollongong
The best React-based framework with performance, scalability and security built in.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:51 commits, 92 PRs, 29 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily focused on integrating and instrumenting OpenTracing within the Gatsby framework. They added tracing to various phases of the bootstrap process, plugin calls, and API calls, leveraging OpenTracing and related libraries like opentracing-zipkin. Their contributions included adding and configuring CLI options for tracing, as well as creating documentation and image examples to aid in its use. They also contributed to improvements on documentation for various aspects of the framework, including "behind the scenes" documentation pages.
Logback plugin to send GELF messages to graylog2 server
Contributions:51 commits, 13 PRs, 59 pushes in 5 years 5 months
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Anthony Marcar - Chief Technology Officer at Zable Health