Marc Byrd
Senior Data Scientist
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMarc Byrd is a Senior Data Scientist based in Austin with 14 years of experience designing high-performance search and AI-backed relevance systems. He has led data science delivery and search engineering at Lucidworks after building search, cloud and big-data products as a founder and technical lead across startups and consultancies. His background blends deep academic training (BS/MS in Physics, PhD coursework in Electrical Engineering) with hands-on expertise in Solr, Redis, MySQL, AWS, and large-scale relevance pipelines. Marc is equally comfortable shipping production search features and driving delivery processes, and he has a track record of turning linguistic and parallel-cloud research into practical, scalable products. An understated strength is his longevity across both engineering leadership and founder roles, which gives him a rare perspective on productizing research for real-world search experiences.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS,MS, Physics, BS,MS, Physics at The University of Texas at DallasPhD, Electrical Engineering, PhD, Electrical Engineering at Rice UniversityDiploma, Diploma at Tivy High School
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Github Skills (43)
json10
caching10
redis10
time-series10
backend10
database10
in-memory9
key-value9
realtime9
data-structure9
nosql9
key-value-store9
vector-search9
message-queue9
java9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
CloudMarc/fusion-cloud-native
Oct 2019 - Jun 2021
Scripts and other tools for installing / operating Fusion on Kubernetes
Contributions:18 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 7 months
containerskubernetes-deploymentorchestrationinstallingnamespaces
CloudMarc/solr-mcp
Jul 2025 - Nov 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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