Software Engineer
Marcus Vale
I build the whole thing — from the database to the pixels — and I like the late-night part best.
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Software Engineer
I build the whole thing — from the database to the pixels — and I like the late-night part best.
About
I'm a full-stack engineer who likes shipping. A few years turning fuzzy ideas into products people use every day — APIs that don't fall over, interfaces that feel fast, and the unglamorous plumbing in between. This little desk is where most of it happens: coffee, a good keyboard, and one problem at a time.
TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, Next.js, React, AWS, CI/CD, System Design
Portfolio
- Cadence — A team scheduling API serving millions of requests a day at p99 under 40ms. Built the service, the tooling and the on-call runbooks around it.
- Fieldkit — An offline-first app for field teams that syncs cleanly even on bad signal. Conflict resolution was the fun part.
- Loop — An internal dashboard that cut a two-hour manual report down to one click. Sometimes the highest-impact work is the boring kind.
Milestone
- 2025/08 · Shipped Cadence to production — Took the scheduling platform from design doc to serving live traffic.
- 2024/04 · Led the platform team — Moved into owning the shared services and developer tooling.
- 2022/09 · 10k users on the core product — The product I helped build from an empty repo crossed ten thousand users.
- 2019/06 · First paid client — Landed my first freelance client and learned to ship on a deadline.