MarcRoopchand

I build and ship products end-to-end, from product direction and architecture to production implementation and team execution.

Email View experience
12+ years

Years building

1.5M+

Users

$2.5B

Value managed

67%

Infra cost down

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Experience

Career
highlights

I work end-to-end on important problems: product framing, architecture, implementation, and execution that produces measurable outcomes.

01
CEO
Simmera AI•Toronto
October 2025 – Present

Building an intelligence layer that helps teams execute end-to-end workflows inside their existing stack.

  • Lead product, engineering, and go-to-market around custom AI systems for operational teams.
  • Built a platform that connects to ERP, CRM, finance, procurement, and internal tools without requiring migration.
  • Designed modular intelligence components across ingestion, extraction, indexing, query, and session context.
  • Ship agentic workflow automation that reduces manual hand-offs and delivers production outcomes faster.
02
CTO
Decentral•Toronto
May 2020 – October 2025

Built and shipped the company's AI platform while leading engineering and research.

  • Led a company-wide pivot from blockchain infrastructure to AI products, resetting roadmap and technical direction.
  • Designed and shipped a multi-LLM platform with research tooling, reporting workflows, agent capabilities, and media generation.
  • Built an intelligent email system that indexed 2.5M emails and 500K attachments, with an agentic search layer that surfaced the right context consistently.
  • Built and mentored engineering and research teams with clear ownership, faster delivery, and higher quality standards.
  • Drove product and execution focus that contributed to peak yearly profits in 2021.
03
Head of Engineering
Decentral (Jaxx Liberty)•Toronto
2018 – 2020

Scaled wallet infrastructure and platform engineering for a high-growth product.

  • Owned engineering strategy for Jaxx Liberty, supporting 1.5M+ users and $2.5B in wallet value.
  • Rebuilt core services in Go and cut monthly infrastructure cost by 67%.
  • Reduced blockchain indexation time from weeks to hours through parallelized pipeline design.
  • Built unified APIs for 90+ assets and standardized cloud delivery with Terraform, Docker, and ECS.
  • Improved wallet core performance (10x faster wallet creation) and reduced new-asset integration from weeks to days.
04
Lead Software Engineer
nanopay•Toronto
Aug 2014 – Dec 2017

Built regulated fintech systems across mobile, backend, and cloud infrastructure.

  • Led full-stack delivery across iOS, Java services, and AWS for the MintChip platform.
  • Built secure financial workflows that moved millions of dollars across thousands of transactions.
  • Designed configurable authentication and permissions systems for enterprise-grade security controls.
  • Implemented a modular transaction engine and supervised AWS + CI/CD operations for reliable releases.
05
Software Engineer Intern
GREE•San Francisco, CA
Sept – Dec 2013

Built backend gameplay features for a large live game.

  • Developed PHP backend features for War of Nations.
06
Software Engineer Intern
EA•San Francisco, CA
Jan – Apr 2013

Implemented gameplay systems in a fast iteration environment.

  • Implemented gameplay logic in C# for Heroes of Dragon Age.
How I Build

Hands-on
execution

My default mode is builder mode: get close to users, define the right system, ship quickly, and improve from real usage data.

Production AI systems

I ship AI features teams use daily, from prototype through production.

  • Idea to rollout
  • Instrumentation and monitoring
  • Operator-friendly UX
Model and tool orchestration

I coordinate models and tools to hit quality, latency, and cost targets.

  • Multi-model routing
  • Fallback strategy
  • Cost-aware execution
Research workflows

I turn noisy information into structured outputs through retrieval and synthesis.

  • Grounded responses
  • Evidence capture
  • Repeatable outputs
Document intelligence

I build document systems that extract structured data for faster decisions.

  • Extraction and summarization
  • Schema-driven outputs
  • Review workflows
Generative product features

I integrate media generation in ways that are useful and production-ready.

  • Model abstraction
  • Prompt pipeline design
  • Production-grade UX
Builder principle

Every system should earn its complexity through measurable business outcomes.

  • Outcome over novelty
  • Reliability first
  • Adoption-focused UX
Leadership

How I
lead

Leadership as execution: clear direction, less friction, and accountability to outcomes.

Direction and standards

Define product priorities and technical guardrails so execution stays focused.

  • Priority alignment
  • Design reviews
  • Release quality gates
Teams that execute

Build teams that ship reliably through hiring, coaching, and direct feedback.

  • Top-caliber hiring
  • Role clarity
  • Short feedback cycles
Measured outcomes

Turn engineering strategy into measurable operating and product gains.

  • 67% infra cost reduction
  • Indexation: weeks to hours
  • 10x wallet creation speed
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Education

Engineering
foundation

A rigorous systems background that still shapes how I design, implement, and scale products.

University of Waterloo

Bachelor of Software Engineering (Honours) — 2014

University of Waterloo President’s Scholarship
Engineering International Student Scholarship