2019
Marcus Holt spent seven years as a data platform engineer at a logistics company in Austin, Texas, where the pipeline went down every time a major carrier updated their API. The fix was always the same: a manual script, a late night, and a promise that someone would build something better. In the spring of 2019, he left to build that something. Vault Labs StreamNex started as a one-person consultancy operating out of a rented desk at a co-working space on East 6th Street, taking on Kafka audits for two fintech startups that had outgrown their batch jobs.