Marcus Eagan
Founder & CEO at Weaviate
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMarcus Eagan is a founder and CEO with 13 years of hands-on engineering and product experience, currently building Nativelink while advising Weaviate and previously shaping search at MongoDB. He blends product leadership with active open-source engineering—he’s an Apache Solr committer and frequent contributor to foundational projects like Apache Lucene and Superset, touching both front-end UI work and build/deployment plumbing. Marcus has led developer-focused teams at Lucidworks and built an IoT security startup that was acquired, demonstrating an ability to ship product and scale technical teams. He pairs product strategy with code—regularly contributing to core search kernels even while driving roadmaps for Atlas Search and related products. Based in San Francisco, he’s equally comfortable refactoring JavaScript UIs and influencing large-scale search infrastructure, and he enjoys learning in public (and admitting he “knows nothing”) while mentoring early-stage companies. An often-overlooked strength: he has a track record of turning deep Lucene expertise into practical product features that non-search experts can actually use.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Data Science, Master of Science - MS Data Science at University of MichiganB.A. (Accelerated Graduation), B.A. (Accelerated Graduation) at Grinnell CollegeNo Degree General Studies, No Degree General Studies at Wayne County Community College DistrictRenaissance
English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese
Github Skills (19)
javascript10
python10
apache-superset10
react10
angular10
data-visualizations9
data-visualisation9
data-visualization9
jquery8
javas8
java8
sql7
html7
documentation6
data-analysis6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
apache/lucene
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
Apache Lucene open-source search software
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:51 reviews, 1 commit, 8 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Marcus's commits primarily involve modifications to the project's front-end and configuration files. The user refactored code and made updates to the front-end index.html, integrating and modifying Javascript libraries like Angular, Chosen, and JQuery. Additional commits relate to the project's build and deployment procedures.
nosqlfulltext-searchsolrapachesearch-engine
apache/superset
Dec 2018 - Nov 2019
Apache Superset is a Data Visualization and Data Exploration Platform
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 25 PRs, 96 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Marcus contributed to both the front-end and back-end aspects of the Apache Superset project. Their work involved modifying JavaScript and React components for UI improvements, particularly related to the Sunburst visualization and the table refresh button. Additionally, they addressed back-end dependencies and configuration files and made enhancements in the Python scripts for the project. Furthermore, the user addressed documentation issues and performed minor edits throughout the system.
pythonapache-supersetflaskbusiness-analyticsbusiness-intelligence
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