Marvin Kaz he/him
Full Stack Developer
I build software, ship it, break it, and figure out why. Focused on systems, deployments, and the boring details that make software actually work.
I’m a Full-Stack Developer who keeps trying to become a Backend Engineer out of spite. I build stuff in react until i get bored, then panic-learn AI because every job posting demands it, and then build stuff in python until i get bored.
I also write about my experiences in software engineering here, Check it out.
Latest updates
see all →Led a hands-on workshop about building research websites that keep publications, projects, and technical notes in portable Markdown.
Released an anonymized benchmark dataset with documentation, reproducible processing scripts, and baseline results.
Shared a new preprint on evaluating the accessibility and transparency of automated decision-support systems.
Career highlights
- to Present
Partner & Software Engineer @ Vayron Digital Solutions Co. · Dallas, TX (Remote)
Studies how automated systems shape access to public information, with an emphasis on transparent evaluation and reproducible research.
- to 2025
Software Developer @ Fortune 4 Real Estate · Dubai, UAE
Built documented data pipelines and evaluation tools for collaborative computational social science projects.
- to 2024
Junior Consultant, Intern @ Global the Business Design Co. · Remote
Developed quality checks for public datasets and contributed reproducible notebooks to an open research toolkit.
Latest posts
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You Never Fully Understood Your Codebase. AI Just Made That Obvious.
Why senior developers are getting hit hardest by a new kind of imposter syndrome, and why the actual skill was never memorizing syntax or holding a whole system in your head.
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Cursor Was Never Bad. It Is Just Not Worth It Anymore
Some thoughts on why Cursor lost its edge, and why I think it eventually gets folded into Grok.
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Nobody Vibe Codes a Kernel, and That Is Not an Accident
Notes on the vibe coding debate blowing up on X this week, why the practice keeps stopping at the same wall, and a couple of good writeups that never trend.
Marvin Kaz
Services
I welcome conversations about:
- reproducible research workflows;
- accessible technical communication;
- teaching with open data; and
- maintaining small scholarly software projects.
Miscellaneous
- Member of an open-research methods working group.
- Reviewer for conferences in computational social science.
- Interested in maps, public libraries, and careful data visualization.