Marco Burstein
Software Engineer at Mercor
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMarco Burstein is a software engineer and Harvard CS student (Class of 2025) with a decade of hands-on experience building full-stack and mobile products, now based in San Francisco. He’s contributed to prominent open-source projects like Zulip—adding test infrastructure, bots, and UI features—and improved UX and TypeScript migration for the popular Rainbow Ethereum wallet. Marco has interned at Amazon working on product recommendations and comparisons, built distributed systems at USC, and shipped mobile features at Rainbow, demonstrating fluency across backend, frontend, and mobile domains. An Apple WWDC scholar and Google Code-in winner, he pairs academic rigor (concurrent bachelor’s and master’s work) with practical engineering discipline. Notably, he focuses on testability and maintainability—extending mock HTTP tooling and consolidating test helpers to make large codebases safer to change.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Harvard University
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Github Skills (29)
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react-native10
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chat10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
rainbow-me/rainbow
Oct 2021 - Aug 2022
🌈‒ the Ethereum wallet that lives in your pocket
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:65 reviews, 78 commits, 37 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Marco primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and user experience of the Ethereum wallet. They addressed a bug in the QR code scanner component, ensuring the "enable camera access" button was accessible. They also updated and refactored various Redux files and components, improving the codebase by converting them to TypeScript, which demonstrates a focus on maintainability and type safety.
ethereum-walletreact-nativeethereumrainbowdefi
zulip/python-zulip-api
Nov 2017 - Dec 2018
Python library for the Zulip API.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:13 commits, 10 PRs, 40 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Marco focused on enhancing the testing infrastructure and adding new features within the `zulip/python-zulip-api` repository. They extended the `mock_http_conversation` functionality to support POST requests, contributing to more comprehensive test coverage. Further refactoring involved consolidating the `get_response` function and introducing `assert_called_with_fields` for more streamlined and maintainable testing. Additionally, the user developed the Link Shortener Bot, which utilizes the goo.gl API to shorten URLs, demonstrating their ability to implement new bot features and integrate with external services.
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