Marcus Westin
Software Engineer
Education
- University of Chicago
- B.S. Computer Science
- GPA 3.2, dean's list 2004-2006
Work
- 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
- Fun, a programming language for the realtime web
- store.js, a cross-browser localStorage wrapper without use of cookies or flash
- fin, a realtime data-layer for web applications
- browser-require, brings node's "require" to the browser
- Contributions to socket.io, kafka, js.io and others
Talks