Cody Marcus
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Staff Engineer at BenchSci
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Senior Software EngineerClioMar 2025 - Current (1 year 8 months)Building AI and search systems for legal workflows, combining LLMs, retrieval infrastructure, and structured document understanding. - Built a GPT + OCR-based calendar event extraction feature with verification UX, enabling automation of ~10% of user-generated calendar events and reducing manual entry - Owning and designing the search API layer powering multiple product and internal RAG systems, integrating Elasticsearch with LLM-based retrieval workflows - Designed structured extraction pipelines for legal documents, improving downstream retrieval quality- Staff EngineerBenchSciMay 2023 - Jan 2024 (9 months)- Drove cross-team alignment on platform-wide initiatives spanning search, data models, and product APIs - Standardized shared data models and APIs across product surfaces to reduce duplication and improve consistency
- Senior Software Engineer - Tech LeadBenchSciMay 2020 - May 2023 (3 years 1 month)- Led a 5-engineer team building a greenfield “Experiment Architect” product for enterprise pharma customers (Amgen, Sanofi, Takeda) - Migrated backend services from Node/Neo4j to Django/Postgres to consolidate application architecture under a unified framework - Led frontend modernization of legacy and new applications, migrating from JavaScript to TypeScript and modern React patterns
- Software EngineerBenchSciSep 2019 - May 2020 (9 months)Built search features for scientific datasets using Elasticsearch-backed retrieval systems
- LLead Software DeveloperJan 2018 - Sep 2019 (1 year 9 months)Led full-stack development of a greenfield job matching platform using React, Node, and PostgreSQL.
- SSoftware EngineerSep 2016 - Aug 2017 (1 year)Worked on React frontend features and Node.js backend modules for a live feed platform.
- Software DeveloperSynaptopSep 2015 - Jun 2016 (10 months)Built frontend features for a real-time event streaming application.
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- bachelor, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science and Cinema StudiesUniversity of TorontoJan 2011 - Jan 2015 (4 years 1 month)