Carl M. Lane

VP of Engineering & Product Development

I build high-performing engineering teams that ship fast and are always learning. Currently I'm scaling Marqii to infinity and beyond. My path from support rep to VP taught me that the best engineering leaders never lose touch with the people they build for. I build teams that prioritize learning velocity over perfection because the team that figures things out fastest is the team that wins.

// at a glance

—Born in the Bay Area, went to high school in San Diego

—Lived in Madrid, Spain after high school

—Before obsessing over software, dreamed about spaceflight and aviation

—Studied aerospace engineering at St. Louis University Parks College

—Using computers since 1990, writing code since 1998

—Spent over a decade at Wix.com

—VP of Engineering and Product Development at Marqii

// philosophy

Build customer obsessed teams that own outcomes, not tickets. Hire for curiosity, invest in growth, and create the conditions where people are inspired to do their best work.

—Small, high-IQ teams beat large, bureaucratic ones every time.

—Engineering is a business lever, not a cost center.

—Speed is the only sustainable competitive advantage.

—Sincere enthusiasm is contagious.

// inspirations

—Marie Curie — Pioneered radioactivity research, first woman to win a Nobel Prize — and then won a second in a different field.

—Chester Nimitz — Led the Pacific Fleet through WWII with calm, strategic brilliance under enormous pressure. Pioneered underway replenishment, keeping fleets supplied without returning to port.

—Alan Shepard — First American in space — grounded by illness, fought his way back, and walked on the Moon.

—Gene Kranz — Mission control legend who defined what it means to be accountable. "Failure is not an option."

—Chuck Yeager — Broke the sound barrier with broken ribs. Pure fearlessness backed by skill.

—Grace Hopper — Invented the first compiler and championed the idea that code should read like English.

—Margaret Hamilton — Wrote the Apollo guidance software and coined "software engineering" as a discipline.

—Linus Torvalds — Created Linux and Git — two tools that fundamentally shaped how software is built.

—Steve Wozniak — Built the Apple I and II essentially alone. Engineering for the pure joy of it.

—Slavoj Žižek — Makes philosophy accessible and provocative — challenges you to question what you take for granted.

// writing

Coming soon.

// elsewhere

Based in San Francisco with my wife and our little one. Away from the keyboard, I'm usually in the kitchen chasing a new recipe, skinning uphill or riding a chairlift somewhere in the Sierra, or experiencing live music with friends.