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

Engineering leader with 8+ years at IBM architecting blockchain and security solutions. I've led globally distributed teams of 20+ engineers, driven 40%+ cost reductions, and built systems that increased revenue 15%. I thrive at the intersection of deep technical work and team development.

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Work Experience

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

• Implemented Thompson Sampling algorithm for SMS and email ad selection resulting in 15% revenue increase.
• Introduced a Facebook marketing revenue stream with offline conversion tracking and campaign cost/billing reporting.
• Reduced technology costs 40% by archiving historical data, increasing pipeline performance, and consolidating microservices.
• Reduced SMS sending costs from 0.01 to 0.003 almost 75% per message by migrating to a new SMS provider.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to draft technical requirements for the engineering team.
• Introduced and conducted root cause analysis, technical incident reporting, and outage remediation.

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

• 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 | IBM Blockchain - Digital Credentials New York, NY | 01/2021 – 04/2023

• 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 | IBM Blockchain - TradeLens New York, NY | 03/2019 – 12/2021

• 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 | IBM Blockchain Chicago, IL | 03/2017 – 03/2019

• 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 | University of Texas, Center for Agile Technology Austin, TX | 01/2015 – 03/2017

• 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 | JPMorgan Dallas, TX | 06/2014 – 08/2014

• 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 | US Army & Texas National Guard Austin,TX , Kabul,AFG. | 09/2006 – 09/2013

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Education

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

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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 Austin, TX | 05/2015

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 Bartlesville, OK | 05/2014

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 Austin, TX | 09/2012

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

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Skills