Marcus Guttenplan
An engineering leader with a creative background, using technology to bring compelling narratives to life and build them into mature experiences. My background spans industries: I have worked on tools to track state-sponsored hackers, developed immersive digital campaigns for global brands like Google, and scaled AI products globally at AWS. Whether building for IT departments or for fashion week, I focus on clarity, story, and execution.
Work
Self-run studio designing and developing custom software solutions for a variety of clients. Focusing holistically on software and infrastructure, we've built interactive experiences for deeplocal and Google, URW Westfield Malls, Experian, Nike at NYFW, AIGA medalist Rebeca Mendez Studio, Cargo Collective, With Projects and other artists and nonprofits. We've done it all: from working on full site redevelopments with world-class designers for e-commerce, integrating with third party APIs in novel ways, to migrating data centers and building new tech stacks in legacy environments. With demonstrated experience in cloud infrastructure and architecture, software development, and managing complex projects with overlapping timelines, we deliver cost-optimized infrastructure and scalable software that brings ideas to life.
Accolades
- WiFi_cLAN featured in #nfcdab2018 touring biennale, Trondheim, NO and elsewhere, 2018
- "Coast to Coast" featured in 9to5.tv gallery, 2017
- iGEM Synthetic Biology Art & Design competition winner, 2014
- Yerba Buena Center for the Arts & IFTF group exhibition “Open City / Open Art”, 2014
- ABC 7 LA feature “Technology Experiments”, 2014
- htxt.africa feature “The (Offbeat) Future of Wearables”, 2014
- LA Times feature “Beyond Google Glass“, 2014
- SCPR feature “5 cool ‘wearable’ prototypes that might be the next Google Glass”, 2014
- “MALWAReABLES” featured Intel ISEF project & press conference, 2014
- Fabrica research grant recipient, 2014
- Eagle Scout honor, 2008
Skills
- System Architecture
- GCP + AWS
- Docker, Kubernetes
- Terraform, CDK, Cfn
- Bitbucket Pipelines, Github Actions, CI/CD
- SQL + NoSQL, BigQuery, BQML
- Load Balancing, Networking, CDNs
- API Gateway, Edge Functions
- Serverless
- SOC2, ISO, GDPR, INT-B Compliance
- Cost Optimization
- Instrumentation + Monitoring
- Scaling and Perf Optimization
- nodejs, express, typescript
- ruby, rails framework
- python, django, DRF, Flask
- ~ Go
- ~ PHP, laravel
- ~ Java
- Vue, vuex, vue-router, nuxt
- HTML, ERB, HBS, Jinja
- Webpack, Gulp, Grunt
- chartjs, d3js
- p5js, processing, OpenFrameworks
- Tensorflow
- AutoML, Vision APIs, tfjs
- DialogFlow, Assistant
- Airtable, Sheets
- Prismic
- Contentful
- Gemini
- Mapbox, gmaps
- Arduino, Raspberry Pi
- OpenCV
- Sensor I/O