Mark Lacey
Founder at ONE MEIDA STUDIO
California, United States
Summary
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RockstarMark Lacey is a serial founder and experience architect with over two decades of cross-industry experience building digital products that bridge entertainment, brands, and emerging technologies. He leads AFEKT MEDIA and One Media Studio, creating VR/MR experiences, AI-first media tools, and IoT SaaS for sectors like cannabis and mHealth while advising Fortune 500 clients on new customer value models. His work blends creative production (TV, music, and broadband platforms) with hands-on engineering—contributing to core open-source projects like Clang, Swift LLDB, and Swift Foundation—demonstrating deep back-end systems know-how rarely seen in product-focused founders. A practiced viral marketer and social platform designer, he has a track record of turning audience insight into engagement-driven revenue channels and proprietary platforms. Currently focused on human-first AI governance and immersive content for devices such as Oculus Rift, Hololens and Apple Vision Pro, he aims to make technology meaningfully affect lives. Outside work he composes music and writes, bringing a creative-technologist perspective to product and story-driven experiences.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (23)
c-language10
foundation10
lldb10
abi10
compiler-compiler10
compiler10
swift10
cprogramming-language10
debug9
objective-c9
debugging9
obj9
coding-style9
type-checking8
refactoring8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
swiftlang/swift-corelibs-foundation
Jan 2016 - Jul 2018
The Foundation Project, providing core utilities, internationalization, and OS independence
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 17 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily focused on maintaining and refactoring core Foundation libraries within the Swift ecosystem. Their contributions include fixing potential overload ambiguities in `_SwiftValue.fetch` calls within various Foundation classes like `NSCFDictionary`, `NSOrderedSet`, and `NSSet`. They also addressed issues related to type checking performance, splitting complex expressions in `NSCFString` to improve build times. Furthermore, the user corrected instances of disallowed implicitly unwrapped optionals as part of the SE-0054 compliance in several Foundation files.
tvostranslationinternationalizationfoundationindependence
apple/swift-lldb
Dec 2015 - Feb 2018
This is the version of LLDB that supports the Swift programming language & REPL.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 1 push in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to the Swift LLDB debugger, focusing on removing deprecated or unused code elements. They refactored the code to remove the dependency on the `getImplicitlyUnwrappedOptionalDecl` and also addressed Swift string handling and formatting issues. Additionally, the user merged stable branches and made minor adjustments to unit tests. Their work is geared towards maintaining the quality and optimizing the performance of the Swift debugger.
lldbswift-programming-languagereplswift-programmingswift
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