Eric MacDougall — CEO
CTO & Engineering Leader | 27 years building software | Scaling platforms from zero to millions of users I build the infrastructure that sits between massive scale and impossible complexity. Co-founder and CTO at Good.Ventures - founding and accelerating innovative product and technology companies through a collaborative ecosystem of funding, sales, bd, development and operations support. At MindGeek (Pornhub), I led engineering for platforms serving 45M+ monthly visitors, architecting the codebase merger of three major high-traffic sites into a single multi-tenant platform while managing CDN bandwidth across terabytes of media with zero downtime releases. At Realm (partnered with EA), I scaled real-time esports servers to 200K+ concurrent players, guiding the company through product-market fit in a capital-constrained environment. At Raiinmaker, I designed a decentralized edge-distributed AI execution platform and built the technology to classify, analyze, and annotate video data at scale for AI training, selling datasets to companies like Google and AWS. That work in AI content classification directly powers what I’m building now. As CTO at Nitrograph, where I worked building agent-to-agent payment infrastructure for the next generation of agentic commerce. I’ve deployed custom L1 instances (Geth, Reth) and customized L2 instances on Optimism, and worked directly with Google’s A2A product team on interoperability standards. Co-founder/CTO at FrameBright, where I’m turning my content classification expertise into AI-curated safe spaces for kids online. We’ve built web and video classification technology that helps parents understand age-specific appropriateness of content, deployed free at parentproof.org, with a gamified mobile app that makes screen time something parents feel good about. Before all of this, I founded and exited a 100+ client dev agency and shipped SaaS products in real estate, content AI (pre-GPT era), and blockchain. My sweet spot: scaling teams from 0 to 1 to 100, fusing Web3 with edge-AI, and turning deep-tech R&D into products millions actually use. Deep expertise in: Kubernetes, Ethereum/Solidity, AI/ML systems, high-concurrency distributed architectures, real-time video processing, containerization/DevOps, and content moderation at internet scale.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI-focused technology leader with extensive experience in high-concurrency systems.
Location: Langford, British Columbia, Canada
Experience: 10 yrs 8 mos
Skills
- Ai Software Development
- Technical Leadership
- Project Management
- Blockchain
- Web Development
- Agile Methodologies
Career Highlights
- Led engineering for platforms serving 45M+ monthly visitors.
- Designed decentralized AI execution platform for major tech companies.
- Expert in scaling teams and technologies from zero to millions.
Work Experience
Good Ventures Labs
Co-Founder / CTO (3 mos)
P51 Agency
Chief Technology Officer (3 mos)
Avitra.ai
Chief Technology Officer (3 mos)
Relay One AI
Co-Founder / CTO (3 mos)
Actium Labs
CTO / Co-Founder (3 mos)
Nitro
Chief Technology Officer (4 mos)
Raiinmaker
Chief Technology Officer (3 mos)
VP of Engineering (1 yr 3 mos)
FrameBright
Chief Technology Officer (2 yrs 3 mos)
Realm
Chief Technology Officer (6 mos)
Lead Software Engineer (5 mos)
Space Metaverse
Vice President of Engineering (3 mos)
SoftVerse Services (Space Metaverse)
VP of Engineering (7 mos)
Lead Developer (4 mos)
Product Owner (2 mos)
MindGeek
Lead Software Developer (7 mos)
Covault Technologies
Chief Technology Officer (1 yr 3 mos)
VR7UAL
Lead Software Developer (2 yrs 10 mos)
Realm
Chief Technology Officer (5 mos)
Vice President Of Engineering (10 mos)
Westcoast Websites
Chief Technology Officer (4 mos)
On the Grid Media
Owner (1 yr 1 mo)
Contetto
Owner (3 yrs 2 mos)
Softcorp Software Ltd
Owner (7 yrs 9 mos)
Education
at Self taught