Marcus Haddon
Software Engineer, Collaboration
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolMarcus Haddon is a pragmatic software engineer with a decade of experience building scalable collaboration and commenting systems, currently focused on collaboration products at Descript. He has driven high-throughput, production-grade platforms at Vox Media—contributing to the open-source Coral Talk comments platform used by major publishers—and has a strong full-stack background spanning front-end React/TypeScript work to serverless microservices on AWS. Marcus excels at clarifying ambiguous requirements through techniques like decision table specifications and automating exhaustive tests, bringing discipline to product-to-engineering translation. Known for balancing independent problem solving with collaborative ownership, he emphasizes learning, knowing his limits, and choosing the best solution over personal preference. A former music theory major with a web development certificate, he pairs analytical rigor with a creative mindset that shows up in thoughtful UI and API design.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Web Developer Specialist Certificate Computer and Information Sciences General, Web Developer Specialist Certificate Computer and Information Sciences General at Austin Community CollegeMusic Theory and Composition, Music Theory and Composition at The College of Wooster
Spanish
Stackoverflow
23reputation
171reached
0answers
1question
Github Skills (15)
uid10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
typescript-types10
co10
graphql8
wpgraphql8
wordpress-graphql8
nodejs7
html6
angularjs6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
coralproject/talk
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
A better commenting experience from Vox Media
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:203 reviews, 278 commits, 115 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Marcus primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the `coralproject/talk` repository. Their work involved implementing UI components, fixing visual inconsistencies in the Giphy input, and enhancing the functionality of comment-related features. They also made code changes to support various features, including the handling of the "Go to Conversation" button for comments and implementing features for an archive process within the codebase. They focused on areas relating to comments, React, and potentially Typescript based on the repository's topics.
reactcomments-widgetjavascriptnodejsgraphql
marcushaddon/crate-frontend
Jan 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:257 commits, 4 PRs, 238 pushes in 2 years 1 month
videossongsstreamingmusic-streamingyoutube
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.