Marek Bejda marek.bejda@gmail.com github.com/marek5050 linkedin.com/in/marek5050

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Work Experience

Director of Technology at It's Today Media ( 09/2024 – current, New York, NY)

• Implemented Thompson Sampling algorithm for ad selection resulting in 15% revenue increase.
• Introduced conversion tracking for Facebook marketing, which opened new and significant revenue stream.
• Reduced technology costs 30% by reducing data, increasing pipeline performance, and consolidating microservices.
• Spearhead a push for generated marketing content.
• Introduced an MCP server for internal users to use Claude to request business information.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to draft technical requirements for the engineering team.

Security Architect at IBM CISO - Remediation Team ( 04/2023 – 08/2024, New York, NY)

• Build out internal security tools to strengthen IBM's security posture.
• Remediate security incidents across IBM assets and products.
• Work with IBM teams to ensure compliance with Security and Privacy by Design (SPbD) and other security standards.
• Leading technical efforts with non-profits like NetZero Atlantic as part of IBM Accelerators.

Software Architect at IBM Blockchain - Digital Credentials ( 01/2021 – 04/2023, New York, NY)

• Support the marketing and commercialization process of IBM Digital Credentials.
• Lead a globally distributed team of 21 engineers across India, Egypt, Europe, and US.
• Lead the security stream - ensure compliance with IBMs Security and Privacy by Design (SPbD), IT Security Standard(ITSS), and overall best practices for the technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Lead interoperability across various cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, GCP, and IBM Cloud.
• Lead the DevOps team on continuous integration/deployments, infrastructure as code, and blockchain deployments.
• Write Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), backlog prioritization, sprint planning, and other agile activities.

Software Architect at IBM Blockchain - TradeLens ( 03/2019 – 12/2021, New York, NY)

• Lead and support the technical integration efforts of various organizations with the TradeLens platform.
• Coordinate with various organizations to build out data sharing and governance policies.
• Design and develop a data analytics solution
• Design and implement solutions for continuous monitoring and raise awareness of data quality.
• Provide guidance on CI/CD, versioning, and engineering best practices.

Software Engineer at IBM Blockchain ( 03/2017 – 03/2019, Chicago, IL)

• Onboard organizations onto IBM Blockchain solutions such as IBM TradeLens and IBM FoodTrust.
• Work with the clients to identify necessary data points, pain points, and roadmap.
• Design and implement resources to accelerate the customer integration process.

Quality Assurance Automation Lead at University of Texas, Center for Agile Technology ( 01/2015 – 03/2017, Austin, TX)

• Design and implement an AWS QA environment for automated testing in the cloud.
• Design and implement a continuous integration suite using Gitlab, Jenkins, and Sauce Labs to ensure the stability of the code base.

Software Engineering Intern at JPMorgan ( 06/2014 – 08/2014, Dallas, TX)

• Led the development of an internal website built using Knockout and integrated various online services such as Google Maps, Places, and News.
• Mentor interns in web development principles, cascade style sheets, and usage of REST APIs.

System Administrator at US Army & Texas National Guard ( 09/2006 – 09/2013, Austin,TX , Kabul,AFG.)

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Education

B.S. in Computer Science with Certificate in Scientific Computation and Data Sciences from University of Texas ( GPA 3.2, 09/2011– 12/2015, Austin, TX)

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Other

Algorithmic Baseball Betting ( 07/2025, )

Built an MCP server for MLB & NFL data retrieval and engineered prompts for successful MLB betting. Evaluated Grok, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude for their betting capabilities.

Performance Analysis for Scaling up R Computations Using Hadoop ( 05/2015, Austin, TX)

There are a number of ways of integrating R with Hadoop and Spark. We explored RHIPE, Rhadoop, R Streaming, and SparkR and measured their performance. During the project we also compared the performance of Hadoop and Spark on open public datasets on the TACC super computer Stampede.

1st Place - ConocoPhillips Innovation Challenge ( 05/2014, Bartlesville, OK)

Competition focused on developing software for emerging technologies. My Pebble team beat out the Google Glass, iPad, and Web responsive teams, by creating a Pebble application that streams and graphs realtime data.

SCORM Javascript Injection ( 09/2012, Austin, TX)

Discovered a vulnerability that allowed users to automatically complete online courses on the widely adopted SCORM learning platform.

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Skills

Languages Java, Python, Go, C++

Frameworks jUnit, PyTest, Pandas

Systems Kubernetes, AWS, Linux, Docker, Spark, Hadoop

Tools Jupyter, IntelliJ, JIRA, TravisCI, git, vim

Data Tableau, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ELK, SQL Query

Clouds IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, GCP