Adam Merrifield
Chief Executive Officer at Grand Experiences Inc.
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAdam Merrifield is a seasoned engineering leader and serial entrepreneur with 15 years of experience building scalable web and mobile experiences and modernizing legacy operations. Currently CEO of Grand Experiences, he blends hands-on full-stack engineering, test-driven design, and systems thinking to transform a 30-year outdoor outfitter into a tech-forward, AI-augmented operation. Previously he led engineering at Manulife—driving mobile launches, CMS consolidation, and reliability-focused practices that accelerated delivery through empowered, autonomous teams. Adam is passionate about reusable architecture, open-source collaboration (notably front-end improvements like modernizing scrollIt.js), and applying automation to replicate full growth functions with minimal overhead. Based in Kitchener, he pairs entrepreneurial grit from founding Seydoggy with corporate-scale delivery expertise to create high-quality, sustainable products and processes.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Technologist, Woodworking, Technologist, Woodworking at Conestoga College
English
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Github Skills (6)
dom-manipulation10
javascript10
event-handling10
jquery10
performance-optimization9
accessibility8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cmpolis/scrollIt.js
Jul 2013 - Oct 2013
A jQuery plugin that makes it easy to create paginated, feature vertically scrolling pages.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 comment in 3 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on improving the `scrollit.js` jQuery plugin. Their contributions involved refactoring the code to use more modern and future-friendly event listeners, replacing older methods like `.keydown()` and `.scroll()` with `.on()`. They also added comments, cleaned up the code, and made methods out of some execution logic. Further, the user fixed a page flicker issue in WebKit browsers.
jqueryscrollingjavascriptjquery-pluginpaginated
seyDoggy/.dotfiles
Nov 2014 - Aug 2021
Contributions:89 commits, 78 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 10 months
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