Buck Heroux
Grew up in a ski town in Colorado and went to school in Boulder. Living in New York City and getting around on an electric scooter or bike. I'm a Pisces and an INTP. I used to make pizza, now I run software teams.
Experience
The Infatuation & Zagat
CTO • 2016 — 2019
- Built engineering team from scratch
- Increased MAU 600% over tenure
- Acquired Zagat from Google
- Drove vision & architecture for UGC platform under Zagat brand
Palantir
Forward Deployed Engineer • 2014 — 2016
- Combatted cyber crime at a Fortune 50 retailer
- Built analysis framework on top of Spark for 5+ TB/day data feeds
- Mentored several junior engineers into successful careers
- Tech lead
- All things geo
Microsoft, Bing Maps
Software Development Engineer • 2012 — 2014
- Streetside 3D team
- Led real-time fleet telemetry project for image collection
Bing Maps was purchased by Uber in 2015
Next Big Sound
Software Engineer • 2011 — 2012
- A&R research tool using models inspired by Physics
- Overall artist ranking and scoring
- Internal tools
Next Big Sound was acquired by Pandora in 2015
Qualcomm
Hardware Engineer Intern • Summer, 2010
Worked on various hardware to establish an ETM (Embedded Trace Macrocell) debugging environment
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology
Machine Learning, Computer Science, M.S. • 2017 — 2021
University of Colorado
Computer Science, B.S. • 2007 — 2011
Projects
Unwinding Uber's Most Efficient Service
Teardown of Uber's most efficient service by analyzing their geofencing algorithm and presenting more efficient alternatives.
GoBERT
Bashoto to build real-time, local apps.
Bashoto
Bashoto to build real-time, local apps.
Diglet
Simple tools for geospatial workflows
Monster Ball Icon Pack
Android app with 500k Downloads & 4.1 Rating