Marc Sherry
Principal Software Engineer at FutureProof Technologies
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMarc Sherry is a Principal Software Engineer with 16 years of experience designing and shipping full-stack systems, currently leading engineering at FutureProof Technologies in San Francisco. He specializes in payments, fraud and risk systems, and applied machine learning, having built industry-leading anti-fraud pipelines and core payments infrastructure at Balanced Payments and scaled risk systems at Affirm. Marc’s background spans high-throughput real-time systems (imo.im) to cloud-scale product teams at Dropbox and Pinterest, giving him a rare blend of low-level performance engineering and product-focused architecture. He’s comfortable across the stack—from C and assembly in latency-sensitive components to backend services, APIs, and infrastructure automation—plus hands-on ops and monitoring experience. Known for turning research-grade ML into production fraud filters and for tackling legacy banking integrations, he brings pragmatic technical leadership that reduces risk and enables rapid scaling.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of California, Riverside
Github Skills (61)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
msherry/.dotfiles
Mar 2015 - Jun 2022
Contributions:92 commits, 80 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 3 months
msherry/nose-cprof
Jul 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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