Marcus Carr
Senior Software Engineer at Instacart
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolMarcus Carr is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-throughput backend services and data-driven systems, currently contributing at Instacart in Washington, D.C. He blends a product mindset with deep technical chops, moving projects from prototype to reliable production at startups and scale-oriented companies like Primer.ai and Riffyn. His background includes leading engineering teams and shipping core infrastructure while drawing on rigorous research training from a PhD and MS at UC Berkeley. Earlier roles span scientific research and applied engineering, giving him fluency in bridging domain expertise with software design. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he focuses on performance, observability, and maintainable APIs that scale with user growth. Outside of day-to-day engineering he brings academic rigor to complex systems, turning research insights into practical, production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MS, MS at University of California, BerkeleyAB, AB at Columbia University in the City of New York
German, English
Github Skills (58)
git10
javascript10
npm10
realtime10
github10
build-system10
nodejs10
reactive-programming10
mongodb10
react10
patch9
zero-configuration9
microfrontend9
meteor9
app-platform9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
RiffynInc/ResourceMiner
May 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:34 commits, 11 PRs, 17 pushes in 3 months
literaturestatisticsscientific-literaturescientific
marcuscarr/meteor-autocomplete
Sep 2015 - Feb 2019
Client/server autocompletion designed for Meteor's collections and reactivity.
Contributions:14 commits, 30 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 5 months
meteorclient-serverreactivityutility-modautocompletion
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