Austin Merrick
Software Engineer at Vercel
Henderson, Nevada, United States
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Top SchoolAustin Merrick is a software engineer with 8 years of experience building full-stack tools and developer experiences, currently contributing to Vercel's CLI and platform. He has a track record of shipping practical improvements—like better prompts, input validation, telemetry, and tgz archive defaults—to high-profile open-source projects used by developers worldwide. Prior roles span enterprise applications and automation at UNLV, CIMON Automation, and Konami, giving him exposure to product-grade reliability and embedded workflows. Outside work he designs games that place in the top 1% of global competitions and publishes technical articles that reach Hacker News front page, signaling both creative technical depth and strong communication.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree , Computer Science, Bachelor's degree , Computer Science at University of Nevada-Las Vegas
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Github Skills (16)
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nodejs10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
cli10
testing9
integration-testing9
test-unit9
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test-integration9
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
vercel/vercel
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
Develop. Preview. Ship.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:270 reviews, 183 PRs, 495 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Austin made various contributions to the Vercel CLI project. They focused on enhancing the user experience and fixing bugs related to the command-line interface. Specific tasks included fixing tests for local development updates, replacing inquirer with @inquirer/prompts to improve prompts styling, implementing input validation improvements and also making archive deployments default to tgz format. They also improved output formatting and added telemetry.
hostingshipcloudcommandjamstack
onsclom/coffeeBot
Aug 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:14 PRs, 35 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
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