Mark Faga

Mark Faga

Founder

Track record

Two decades of shipping

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  1. 2026 · Faga Labs

    Founded Faga Labs

    Founder

    A principal engineering studio that ships full-stack products and builds its own in the lab.

  2. 2025 · Via AI

    Built the Via AI data resolution platform

    Co-founder and engineer

    Rebuilds more than 100M profiles across multiple data sources, plus billions of real relationship edges, in under 5 hours.

    100M+ profiles in under 5 hours

  3. 2025 · Via AI

    Built an agentic engineering ecosystem

    Co-founder and engineer

    Orchestrates agents across machines with shared context and memory, live coordination, and historical session know-how for the whole team.

  4. 2023 · Hunt Club and Atlas

    Principal engineering at Hunt Club and Atlas

    Principal Software Engineer

    Led engineering on the Hunt Club platform and Atlas, a Hunt Club company.

  5. 2022 · Prefab

    Advised Prefab

    Advisor

    Technical advisor from 2022 until the acquisition by Reforge.

  6. 2020 · Wayfair

    Built Wayfair's foundational API platform

    Senior Staff to Principal Software Engineer

    The GraphQL platform, program, and team that now serve billions of requests a day across the Storefront, Partner, and Internal APIs. Spoke at GraphQL conferences.

    Billions of requests a day

  7. 2018 · ezCater

    Re-envisioned ezCater's customer service platform

    Staff Software Engineer

    Led the technical direction for the platform behind 5-star customer service at scale, with an estimated $10M in annual savings by the end of the first year. Spoke at Twilio Engage 2019 and React Boston 2018.

    $10M estimated annual savings

  8. 2016 · Attend

    Led Attend's technology through the Event Farm acquisition

    Tech Lead

    Ran the engineering team, led the integration into Event Farm, and architected cross-platform iOS and Android apps.

  9. 2013 · The Baupost Group

    Built investment operations systems at Baupost

    Software Engineer

    Delivered CRM, trade data, and reporting systems for a global investment firm.

  10. 2010 · Bank of America

    Integrated Bank of America and Merrill Lynch systems

    AVP, Business Technology Integration Consultant

    Planned and delivered the technology integration of annuity and insurance systems after the merger.

  11. 2004 · The Hartford

    First production code

    SQL Developer Intern

    Upgraded a query server from SQL 6.5 to SQL 2K with a team of professionals.

History

Mark founded Faga Labs in 2026. Before Faga Labs, Mark built software at companies from fast-growing startups to global financial firms.

Previously built at

  • Now part of Uber
  • Acquired by Event Farm

Why a studio

Client work and our own products feed each other. Building our own products keeps our practice current, from architecture to the newest AI tooling. Clients get a team that ships, not just advises.

Mark builds the AI tooling Faga Labs runs on, from agent harnesses to AI triage systems.

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