Summary
Marco Fleming is a Growth Engineer and former startup founder with eight years of experience building product and infrastructure across research labs, enterprise, and startups in the Greater Boston area. He combines hands-on systems and ML experience—from io_uring network tooling and scalable Azure architectures at Microsoft to voice-emotion detection ML at Allstate and DeepLab-based image segmentation research at MIT CSAIL. As Co-Founder and CTO of Instinct and now at Rox, he blends technical leadership with growth-oriented product engineering to move ideas into production. His work at the MIT Media Lab on a hypothetical CBDC with the Boston Fed highlights an ability to navigate complex, policy-adjacent technical problems. Marco has practical expertise deploying ML at the edge and automating builds for heterogeneous CPU targets, signaling a knack for operationalizing research. He brings entrepreneurial grit, research depth from top institutions, and a track record of shipping pragmatic, production-ready systems.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cohort 1.0, Cohort 1.0 at Prod
High School, High School at The Science Academy of South Texas
Spanish, English