I have fun solving problems and breaking things.
Senior Engineer, Ex-Plaid Lifelong: Polymath
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.
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.
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.
+ 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
