Marvin Gay
Backend Engineer at PrizePicks
United States
Summary
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RockstarMarvin Gay is a backend engineer with six years of experience building scalable web services and event-driven architectures, currently contributing at PrizePicks after leading backend work on GitLab’s AI-powered Code Suggestions. Texas-raised and TypeScript-focused, he’s shipped features in Node.js/TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, and AWS-backed systems across startups and large products, plus maintained The Odin Project’s curriculum and web app used by nearly a million annual users. His background includes real-world operations and product insight from roles in hospitality and an unusual stint as a poker pro, which sharpened his risk analysis and decision-making under pressure. Marvin combines pragmatic engineering with a knack for developer tooling, testing, and cross-stack fixes that improve both developer experience and product reliability.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (7)
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
javascript9
react8
ruby7
testing7
odin7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
TheOdinProject/theodinproject
May 2020 - Mar 2022
Main website for The Odin Project
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 10 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Marvin contributed to the Odin Project website by adding seeds for deployment, fixing project titles, removing an obsolete lesson seed, and adding unit tests. They also addressed a project submissions list descriptor and fixed markdown preview code highlighting. These commits indicate involvement across the front-end and back-end components of the website.
ruby-on-railscurriculumcssjavascriptruby
marvingay/orgbg-backend
Aug 2020 - Jul 2021
org-battleground backend
Contributions:8 PRs, 16 pushes, 6 branches in 10 months
backendbattleground
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