Marc Sibson
Director Hyper Genie Tableau at Salesforce
Brampton, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMarc Sibson is a seasoned engineering leader with 15 years building high-performance distributed systems and developer-focused services, currently directing Hyper/Genie/Tableau at Salesforce to scale the Hyper analytics database. He has a proven track record growing platform businesses—from driving Heroku from zero to $100M ARR and multi-region deployments to leading reliability and CI/CD improvements for Heroku Connect. A hands-on principal engineer at heart, Marc contributes to open source projects such as vncdotool, RedBeat and Circus, focusing on robust backend scheduling, process management and tooling. He combines product instincts with operational rigor, reducing support interruptions and accelerating team delivery through data-driven process changes. Based in Brampton, Ontario, he mentors engineers into senior roles and blends deep low-latency, embedded-system roots with modern cloud-native architecture. Colleagues know him for turning practical prototypes into production-grade services and for shipping deceptively simple solutions to complex distributed problems.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc, Computer Science, B.Sc, Computer Science at McMaster University
English
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Github Skills (19)
zeromq10
python10
redis10
testing10
process-management10
celery10
command-line-tool10
image-processing9
perl9
configuration-management9
documentation9
pytest8
locale6
optimization6
hudson6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sibson/vncdotool
Dec 2010 - Jan 2023
A command line VNC client and python library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 29 reviews, 404 commits in 12 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Marc primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the vncdotool command-line tool. They implemented new features like mouse drag, pause, and command aliases, and also addressed several bug fixes. The user also refactored the image handling code for better readability. Moreover, the user improved the build process by updating to setuptools.
command-linepythonvnc-client
sibson/redbeat
Aug 2015 - Nov 2022
RedBeat is a Celery Beat Scheduler that stores the scheduled tasks and runtime metadata in Redis.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 13 reviews, 305 commits in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Marc primarily contributed to the RedBeat project, a Celery Beat scheduler that uses Redis. Their work focused on optimizing the scheduler, including the efficient handling of scheduled tasks and metadata in the Redis database. The user improved the task management, by addressing issues with partial updates and potential data corruption. Further contributions included integrating a distributed lock to prevent multiple Beat instances from running.
celerybeatredisscheduled-taskscelery
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