Lucas Carlson
Staff Engineer, Applied AI at Zapier
Carlsbad, California, United States
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Top SchoolLucas Carlson is a seasoned cloud and AI technology leader and founder with over two decades of experience turning emerging technologies into enterprise-scale platforms. He built one of the first standalone PHP PaaS products (AppFog) and co-created the streaming service that evolved into Apple Music, demonstrating a rare mix of startup product intuition and large-scale architectural rigor. As a co-founder and CTO at LEADx he architected LLM-powered coaching systems serving 100,000+ managers with SOC 2 and GDPR-grade reliability, and now drives AI connectivity and the Model Context Protocol at Zapier to scale LLM integrations across 8,000+ apps. His expertise spans LLM orchestration, RAG pipelines, production ML infrastructure, and responsible AI practices, coupled with hands-on developer tooling and platform building from the OS up. Based in Carlsbad, California, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with deep systems craftsmanship—his craftsmanfounder.com moniker hints at a long history of open-source and developer-focused contributions.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Physics, Bachelor Physics at Reed College
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Github Skills (29)
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
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