Marcus Grant Lee

Your newest Engineer

Work Experience

Chief Technology Officer

10/2021 – Current
Tattoo StudioKeene, New Hampshire

Managed multiple employees, architecture, and software, working extensively across the tech stack to improve the product and add new cross-platform features. Tattoo Studio now operates with 200+ paying customers and some studios with 50,000+ clients.

ReactNext.jsReact NativeMonorepoVercelNode.jsGCPAWSAPIs

Founding Software Engineer

11/2023 – 12/2024
Soco ClubCape Town, South Africa

Launched mobile and web applications with a self-hosted backend. Built an event management system with a full chat interface similar to iMessage, distributed to 7 different countries. Additionally, my bug fix in whatwg-fetch was accepted, reaching 780 million yearly downloads.

React RouterReact NativeVercelDjangoCeleryRedisDockerAPIs

Founding Software Engineer

06/2022 – 10/2023
SpiceNew York, New York

Led the creation of tools for gamers, including an alternative to Stripe and StreamElements donation tools with a fully complete ledger and bank-backed payment system. Completed early research into diffusion models, controlnets, inpainting, and CLIP to create one of the world's first chat-based image editing tools.

Remix RunFastAPIReact NativeVercelWhatsApp APIKYCSecure SSN handlingHuggingFaceLoRa

Software Engineer

09/2021 – 09/2022

Implemented complex UI and helped deliver 100,000 books yearly, moving the company toward its goal of $1 million ARR, which was achieved during my contract period.

Expo 39-42FirebaseGCPNativebaseAngularReanimated 2Stripe

Engineer

10/2018 – 02/2022
Eagle Radio TechnologiesFalconer, New York

Software Engineering for clients using Svelte, React, or React Native. Business automation with Ahk, Python, R, and Visual Basic. Infrastructure Engineering overviewing Astro P25 Radio Systems and distributed e911 systems.

Specialty Mechanical Engineer

06/2014 – 07/2018
SKF AerospaceFalconer, New York

At SKF, I worked on various specialty engineer accounts including SpaceX, Boeing, MRC, and others, working directly with high nitrogen corrosion resistant and double row self-aligning ball bearings.

Dishwasher

Summer 2013, Thanksgiving/Christmas 2013
Rowdy RoosterPanama, New York

Key Open Source Contributions

Whatwg-fetch – Core contribution

780 million downloads/year

View on GitHub

Each square = 10 million downloads

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Education

SUNY JCC

2014 - 2018

Engineering and Computer Science

E2CCB Information Technology

2012 - 2014

Enterprise Hardware and Networking