Marcus Wu Email & Phone Number

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Seattle, Washington, Us

- Hire, coach, retain and support the career growth of engineering managers, tech leads, engineers, QA to build and scale business critical applications- Led the planning and execution of three team charters with across E2E engineering stack for web development and orchestration- Oversaw product launches for pricing tooling and underwriting platform serving 300+ users internationally and used to purchase $5.8B worth of homes over the course of 40 months- Contributed to strategic planning such as: annual operating plan, quarterly planning and technical improvements with Product and Machine Learning leadership- Drove adoption of developer On Call and SLXs, and pushed for cross team alignment in an org of 40+ people to better support the business- Fostered a healthy, high performance working environment (setting expectations, adopting remoteworking processes, morale events, etc...) in the face of COVID and WFH difficulties.- Received 4+ out of 5 on quarterly direct report surveys, gathered regular feedback into career planning and roadmap, created coaching-driven culture, oversaw team retrospectives

Seattle, Washington, Us

- Led quick 0 to 1 creation and development of tools used by internal analysts and brokers to make acquisitions of homes by incurring calculated tech debt then addressing pieces every sprint and in quarterly planning- Pushed for and helped form a working group to improve the development pipeline that was adopted by 15+ teams, 86+ services and successfully transitioned ownership to a newly formed full time infrastructure team.- Partnered with various tech teams to integrate information and machine learning models to meet business needs- Separated team owned functionality within org-wide monolith and transitioned ownership of previous owned business features to stay focused on new team scope- Grew team of 2 to 8 of varying experience levels ranging from junior to senior engineers- Dedication to improving site stability and team issues and owns communication to other team- Helped the team members process the shifts in team charter & retain talent

Seattle, Washington, Us

- Led feature development on projects for the home details page with 1B page views monthly- Owned major cross-team software dev org initiative to improve dev velocity on an aging framework culminating in presentation to engineering company-wide- Selected to participate in Trulia-Zillow merger summit to share knowledge and details to facilitate cross pollination- Top Karma (internal coworker appreciation system) earners in all of product development- Advised on home details page partner team projects such as integrating new components like schools and owner expense modules and framework changes within mobile apps- Reduced a major development pain point by consolidating forked mobile and desktop codebase- Onboarded and managed 2 summer interns

Seattle, Washington, Us

- Contributed to major initiatives that improve page load speed for the home details page by 30%- Led the creation of testing service that unblocked 5+ partner teams needing to test different variants of the home details page- Awarded Zuperstar - one of the highest form of recognition at the company

Houston, Texas, Us

- Led team of four developers to drive modifications to HPFS Asset Management Capabilities Logistics pages to better accommodate business processes using ASP.NET WebForms, C# and SQL Server.- Worked with Business Analysts and Project Manager to understand and deliver solutions.- Resolved software deployment environment issues in Windows Server and SQL Server.- Formal Recognition of Greatness (FRoG) peer excellence award FY12- Performed root cause analysis and resolve production tickets- Designed and implemented report pages allowing user customizability

- Led team of three developers to design and implement a Craigslist posting tool system for automobile dealerships that allowed for in-depth reporting of postings- Designed and implemented company website using Photoshop, XHTML, and CSS.- Improved loading times of reporting pages by optimizing SQL queries.