Summary
Mario Hebert is a senior engineering manager with 8+ years leading high-performing teams and over two decades of hands-on software engineering across AdTech, growth, and platform domains. He has a strong track record scaling orgs and execution—building hiring programs, career frameworks, incident processes, and the Directly Responsible Engineer (DRE) model to drive ownership and delivery. At Faire and Proof he led large cross-functional groups focused on growth, SEO/SEM automation, and reliability for high-traffic events, delivering measurable GMV and performance gains. His background ranges from embedded and networking firmware to marketing technology and lifecycle systems, giving him rare breadth from low-level systems to product-led growth. Based in Austin, he pairs technical depth with structured people management—often stepping in to coach struggling engineers and new managers into measurable improvement. A lifelong learner, he augments his engineering roots with MBA and Reforge growth/product credentials, and unique early-career telecom/embedded experience that informs his pragmatic approach to scaling teams and systems.
8 years of coding experience