Summary
Marcus Schimizzi is a Software Engineer II based in Chicago with a decade of experience building maintainable, extensible front-end systems and data visualizations at mid-size SaaS companies. He specializes in React, TypeScript, and D3.js, and has driven measurable product adoption by redesigning visualizations (including a word cloud with a custom placement algorithm) that achieved over 90% customer uptake. Marcus has a track record of improving developer productivity—creating an internal JSFiddle-like platform for D3 that boosted cross-functional collaboration—and has led end-to-end projects such as a generative AI dashboard widget. He mentors new engineers, improves testing and automation practices, and reliably supports production as an on-call engineer. Comfortable working with UX and PM teams, he combines strong system design and performance optimization skills with a pragmatic, customer-centered approach.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Notre Dame
English