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 (32)
classification10
machine-learning10
machine-learning-algorithms10
classifier10
gmail10
bayesian10
classification-algorithm10
ruby9
parser9
etsy-api9
homebrew9
e-mail9
rss8
downtime6
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cloudenvhq/cli
Oct 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:115 commits, 105 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
leadxhq/docs
Feb 2021 - Aug 2023
Contributions:4 PRs, 22 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 6 months
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