Steven Merrill
Software Engineer at Principal Software Engineer ExamSpark
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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SeniorSteven Merrill is a Principal Software Engineer with two decades of delivering scalable, interactive web experiences and a track record of leading engineering teams across startups and agencies. Based in Cambridge, MA, he combines hands-on development with architecture leadership, from Drupal/LAMP optimization to front-end performance tuning and CI automation. As a backend and DevOps engineer on HashiCorp Packer, he enhanced the VMware builder, added headless builds, and improved the Amazon builder workflow. He previously taught interactive and mobile multimedia at Bradley University, blending art and code. His career spans leadership roles at Phase2, Treehouse Agency, Formlabs, Liteboxer, and entrepreneurial stints like SquareBaby. A musician and cyclist by passion, he brings creative problem-solving and cross-disciplinary fluency to engineering.
16 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
go10
vmware10
virtualbox9
build-automation8
automations7
automation7
docker6
dockerce6
dockers6
cloud-infrastructure5
infrastructure5
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/packer
Jun 2013 - Jul 2015
Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:37 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Steven contributed to the Packer project by enhancing the VMware builder. They implemented features like uploading VMware Tools, adding a compaction step for disk images, and enabling headless mode for VMware and VirtualBox builds. Furthermore, the user incorporated code review feedback, improved the build process, and fixed existing issues within the Amazon builder.
vagrantplatformslinuxpackerdocker
smerrill/vagrant-gatling-rsync
Mar 2014 - May 2021
An rsync watcher for Vagrant 1.5.1+ that uses fewer host resources.
Contributions:1 release, 72 commits, 8 PRs in 7 years 3 months
vagranthostrsyncwatchervagrantfile
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