Marc Sherry
Principal Software Engineer at FutureProof Technologies
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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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 (82)
flycheck10
melpa10
emacs-lsp10
emacs-lisp10
emacs10
elisp10
magit10
checker10
emacs-package10
cprofile9
client-library9
on-the-fly9
api-specification9
languagetool9
test-kitchen9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
msherry/flycheck-pycheckers
Jul 2017 - Aug 2020
Multiple syntax checker for Python in Emacs, using Flycheck
Contributions:6 reviews, 66 commits, 22 PRs in 3 years
pythonsyntax-checkercheckerlintingemacs
msherry/Emacs-config
Oct 2009 - Jan 2023
Contributions:761 commits, 542 pushes, 1 branch in 13 years 5 months
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