Lucas Carlson
Product Leadership Highlights
I’m a product-driven, AI-focused technology leader and repeat founder who turns emerging tech into category-defining platforms.
LEADx - Co-Founder & CTO
- Grew a B2B SaaS to train 100,000+ managers of Fortune 500 companies.
- Led product development of AI-driven “Coach Amanda” app across Web, iOS, and Android.
- Achieved SOC II Type 2 compliance for an audited secure platform.
CenturyLink - Chief Innovation Officer
- Launched Panamax, an open-source Docker tool adopted by 200+ companies in its first year.
- Drove container adoption across internal and enterprise customers.
- Built and evangelized a new cloud developer strategy for the second largest telco in the US.
AppFog - Founder & CEO
- Built a PaaS Cloud that ran over 100,000+ applications across 6 public clouds within 2 years.
- Raised $9.8M in VC funding, achieving rapid growth and acquisition by CenturyLink in 2013.
- Led the product roadmap from PHP-only to support multiple languages (Ruby, Java, Node.js) with a 99.9% uptime SLA.
MOG - Co-Founder & CTO
- Created an early music streaming service that was acquired by Apple in 2014 and became the foundation of Apple Music's streaming service.
- Led product and engineering team.
- Invented US Patent 15,809,888, a key patent for music streaming held by Apple today.
Open Source Projects
- Published and maintained 20+ open source projects
- Over 9 million downloads of open source projects I started
- Over 1,593 stars across my GitHub projects