Author

Marcus Oyelaran

Tools & Platforms Editor

5+ years experience

Marcus spent six years as a platform engineer before switching sides to cover the tools he used to fight with. He's the one who actually reads the API docs, runs the curl command in the announcement post, and tells you when the 'now generally available' button is quietly still in a waitlist. He tests every coding agent, IDE extension, and inference platform Model Drop covers on his own infrastructure before writing a word.

Credentials

  • 6 years as a platform/infrastructure engineer prior to journalism
  • Hands-on tester of every AI coding tool and inference platform covered on Model Drop
  • Maintains a personal benchmark rig for latency and cost comparisons across hosted model APIs