About me
Name: Mercier, Carl
Place of residence: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Spoken & written languages: English, French
Email: carl at carlmercier dot com
Twitter: @cmercier
LinkedIn: carlmercier
Carl Mercier is a serial technology entrepreneur and developer from Montreal, Canada. His latest venture, Defensio, has attracted significant interest from worldwide blogger and developer communities and has exhibited superior filtering performance. Defensio was acquired by Websense Inc., a publicly-traded company in January 2009. Carl is now director of software development at Websense. Carl also founded Montreal on Rails, a developer community group that brings together local Ruby on Rails enthusiasts for monthly gatherings. Prior to founding Defensio, Carl started Adonis Technologies, a company that built advanced management software for the tourism & recreation industry. It was acquired in 2006. Carl holds degrees in business management and sound engineering. He also pretends to be able to beat just about anyone at poker.
Work Experience
- Websense, inc., director of software development, 2009-2012
- Karabunga, inc. (Defensio.com), founder & CEO, 2006-2009 (acquired by Websense)
- AjaxWhois.com, founder, 2005-2008 (acquired)
- AdonisTech Corporation, founder & CEO, 1998-2006 (acquired)
- MyBinaries.com (Usenet provider), founder, 2002-2004 (acquired)
- BinCrawler.com (Usenet search engine), founder, 2002-2003 (acquired)
- Steelwave Studios (recording studio), founder, 1995-1998
Startups I’m currently advising
- Context.io (the missing email API — was DokDok)
- Stella (website monitoring service)
Education
- Business Management, Stonehill College (North Easton, MA, USA)
- Business Management, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (Québec, Canada)
- Sound engineering, Trebas Institute (Québec, Canada)
- Autodidact computer programming, hardware, networking and database management (since I’m 7 years old)
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