Marcus Westin
Software Engineer
Education
- University of Chicago
- B.S. Computer Science
- GPA 3.2, dean's list 2004-2006
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Work
- Flutterby Mountain View, California
- Founder 2012-current
- Clover Mountain View, California
- Founding engineer 2011-2012
- Developed full software stack of 3 products
- Designed and implemented mysql schemas, java servers, iOS & js clients, dashboards, ad units & marketing emails
- Meebo Mountain View, California
- Senior software engineer 2008-2011
- Developed and maintained Meebo's messenger product
- Second engineer to work on the Meebo bar
- Lead engineer for Meebo bar publisher relations
- Hallowed Grounds Chicago, Illinois
- General Manager 2006-2007
- Coordinated and executed business development
- Hired and managed personnel of 18
- Maintained business relationship with 20+ distributors and vendors
- Summer jobs & internships
- Web UX engineer, Implior, Sweden 2007-2008
- Cashier, Gronsakslandet, Sweden 2000-2007
Open source
- WebViewProxy, a library for proxying UIWebView HTTP requests in iOS
- WebViewJavascriptBridge, a messaging bridge between ObjC and JS for iOS
- Fun, a programming language for the realtime web
- store.js, a cross-browser localStorage wrapper without use of cookies or flash
- require, brings node's "require" to the browser
- node-kafka, a node.js client for kafka
- require, brings node's "require" to the browser
- Contributions to socket.io, kafka, js.io and others
Talks