Mark Brewer
Owner, Naturalist Guide Banyan Tree Adventures
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMark Brewer is a veteran technology executive and board advisor with 12+ years of experience architecting go-to-market, product and operations strategies for open source and cloud-focused companies, including leading Lightbend as President & CEO and advising search and AI firms like LucidWorks and Stormpath. He blends deep technical fluency in search (Lucene/Solr), AI/ML and Python data tooling with hands-on product and sales leadership to help startups secure funding, scale teams, and commercialize developer-centric platforms. Based in San Francisco but running an eco-tourism business in Maui, he uniquely pairs enterprise software chops with small-business operations as owner and naturalist guide of Banyan Tree Adventures. A longtime mentor and talent advocate, Mark is often tapped to translate complex engineering roadmaps into repeatable business models and measurable growth.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Biology, General, Bachelor’s Degree, Biology, General at Western Washington University
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Github Skills (10)
solrj9
solr9
twitter2
python2
dslr1
deep-learning1
tensorflow1
drools1
curses1
dsl1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lucidworks/data-quality
Feb 2014 - Sep 2015
Preliminary Solr DQ / Data Quality experiments and prototype, and SolrJ wrapper utilities
Contributions:1 release, 108 commits, 6 pushes in 1 year 6 months
solrsolrj
ttennebkram/opencv-pipeline
Nov 2025 - Dec 2025
Contributions:10 releases, 54 pushes, 5 branches in 24 days
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