Marcus Hurney
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMarcus Hurney is a versatile software engineer with a decade of experience building secure, user-focused frontends and full-stack systems from startup prototypes to production-grade desktop apps. He co-founded Meditate AI to streamline medical data annotation, hiring and managing an offshore annotator team and shipping proprietary annotation software that bridged clinical workflows and ML pipelines. Marcus has deep frontend expertise demonstrated by years on IOHK’s Daedalus wallet—contributing React-based refactors and UI integrations for a widely used open-source cryptocurrency wallet—and by full-stack roles at Quizlet and Esprezzo. He’s comfortable across the stack, having implemented Node.js backends, GraphQL data layers, and mobile apps while reducing technical debt through thoughtful refactors. Based in San Francisco, Marcus pairs entrepreneurial drive with pragmatic engineering, often favoring maintainable, reusable components and incremental modernization. A former language instructor with immersive Chinese study, he brings both cross-cultural communication skills and a knack for leading distributed teams.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Chinese Language Immersion Program, Chinese Language Immersion Program at Huangshan UniversityBachelor's degree, Comparative Literature, Bachelor's degree, Comparative Literature at University of Georgia - Franklin College of Arts and SciencesMcCallie School
English, Chinese
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
scs10
front-end-development10
react10
sc10
css9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
input-output-hk/daedalus
May 2018 - Apr 2020
The open source cryptocurrency wallet for ada, built to grow with the community
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:658 commits, 55 PRs, 654 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Marcus's commits primarily focus on updating and integrating React Polymorph components within the Daedalus cryptocurrency wallet project. They refactored import statements, adjusted CSS variables, and removed legacy code. The changes included modifying various wallet components such as AdaRedemptionForm, PrintDialog, and WalletRestoreDialog to utilize the new API and styling of the react-polymorph framework.
adablockchainwalletplutuscryptocurrency-wallet
gemvietnam/Point-Of-Sale-System
Aug 2016 - Oct 2016
Point of Sale System developed for pharmacies in Vietnam and Indonesia. Includes inventory management, sales tracking, revenue reporting, and enterprise grade user authentication and route security.
Contributions:41 commits in 2 months
saleinventory-managementuser-authenticationrouteenterprise-grade
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