Summary
Marco Pizarro is a Stanford-educated, bilingual founder and full-stack engineer with nine years of experience building product-first solutions that center social impact. As co-founder of StrEats he architected a React Native mobile platform with real-time vendor tracking and AI insights to increase visibility for 100+ food entrepreneurs in underserved communities. His background—growing up in Salinas Valley as the son of immigrant parents and farmworker grandparents—drives a focus on civic-minded tech, reflected in roles from policy analysis at The 5BORO Institute to scaling public-service apps at Irys. He blends hands-on mobile and full-stack development (React, Node, GraphQL) with event and organizational leadership demonstrated at TreeHacks and Harvest Hacks. Comfortable moving between product, policy, and operations, he has a track record of shipping practical tools that connect technical insight to community outcomes. Always looking to collaborate with mission-driven teams, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a product-minded engineering approach.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Salinas High School
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Stanford University
Spanish, English