Lucas Carlson

Experience

Founder, CTO 2018 - Present (about 8 years)

Leveraging technologies including React, GraphQL, and Watson. Responsible for building the mobile and web technology platforms for LEADx: Conversational Learning for Leadership... more

CenturyLink

Chief Innovation Officer 2013 - 2015 (about 2 years)

Exit

AppFog

Founder, CEO 2010 - 2013 (almost 3 years)

Exit

MOG

Co-Founder, CTO 2006 - 2010 (over 4 years)

Founder

AppFog, LEADx

Employee

MOG, CenturyLink

Advisor

Promoter.io, Babblr, Empire of Australia, SocialSearch.io, Aerobatic

Mentor

PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment)

Projects

Panamax

Making deployment of complex containerized apps easy

Containers could be the next Virtual Machine. But running multi-container, multi-server apps with containers is very hard. You have to learn 5 new and… · More

With Richard H. W. Baldwin

Education

About

Achievements

I’ve been a computer programmer for 20+ years. I wrote the Ruby Cookbook (over 1,000+ pages of Ruby code) and Programming for PaaS for O’Reilly.

I’ve also built multiple web apps that have scaled to millions of users and 100,000+ customers across 6 different cloud datacenters. I was the engineering co-founder at Mog, which was acquired by Beats and then Apple to become Apple Music.

In addition, I’ve founded my own startup, AppFog, which was a PaaS (like Heroku) where I raised $9.8 Million in VC and was acquired by a Fortune 150 company.

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Ruby on Rails Ruby Cloud Computing Open Source Scaling Web Applications Entrepreneurship Writing MySQL Blogging Leadership Backend Development Frontend Development Full Stack Development Software Architecture Web Development Venture Capital Content Management Content Marketing PostgreSQL DevOps Product Development Product Management Business Strategy Agile Product Marketing Artificial Intelligence Docker Machine Learning Data Analysis Business Analysis MongoDB Innovation & Growth Digital Marketing Email Marketing Growth Hacking Marketing Research Marketing Strategy Social Media Marketing

Locations

San Diego

Q&A

What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?

Anti-Fragile by Nassim Taleb, Losing My Virginity by Richard Branson, How To Get Rich by Felix Dennis, Never Split The Difference by Christopher Voss, Getting To Yes by Roger Fisher and William Ury, The War of Art by Stephen Pressfield

What's your favorite non-business book?

It by Stephen King, The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King, The Goldfinch by Donna Tart, The Man From St. Petersburg by Ken Follet, Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, The Surrender Experiment by Michael Singer, A Movable Feast by Hemmingway

Lucas Carlson

Co-Founder & CTO @LEADx, Founder & CEO @AppFog (Acquired in June 2013), Co-Founder & CTO of @MOG