My name is Marcus Crowder, I'm a polymath, and I was born in Guyana, South America. When I was 14 years old, I moved to New York, where I began teaching myself Python and using it to create gaming bots.

Experience

CompassSenior Software Engineer

2024 — Now

New York City Metropolitan Area

New Adventure

South Park CommonsMember

2023 — 2024

New York, New York, United States

Exploring AI:

PlaidSoftware Engineer

2019 — 2023

Greater New York City Area

Backend Software Engineer (Plaid) - Core Exchange (02/2021 - 2023)

One of the first engineers on Core Exchange, which is Plaid's platform for how banking platforms integrate with Plaid. Contributor across our whole stack -- front-end, back-end, and infrastructure -- as we took this product successfully to market. Wrote one pagers and technical specifications that underwent review by the entire Plaid engineering team for a number of key features -- expediting our ability to onboard more banks, faster onto our platform.

Backend Software Engineer (Plaid) - Connectivity (10/2019 - 02/2021)

Developed, tested, and maintained data integration framework to reliably collect

financial data from over 11000+ financial institutions in Python & Typescript

CoFounder of ERG Plaids of Color https://afrotech.com/behind-the-code-a-day-in-the-life-with-plaids-own-shenae-simmons-and-marcus-crowder, grew membership from 0 to 150 POCs during BLM & Stop Asian Hate movements.

Productivity LabsSoftware Engineer - Consultant

2019 — 2019

Greater New York City Area

+ Worked as a Backend Developer, alongside a Front-End Developer to build APIS for Application Servers and set up Databases for client's online Web store. Tools Used Python Flask, PostgreSQL.

+ Automated tedious work tasks of friends, local office workers, and business owners. In one instance managed to cut down my client's month-long work task to one that took 10 minutes. Tools Used: Beautiful Soup, Regular Expressions, Selenium, Xpath, Scrapy

Education

Baruch College

BBA

2013 — 2018