Brian Merrell
Principal Software Engineer at Walmart Global Tech
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Merrell is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience designing high-performance, production-grade systems spanning embedded firmware, distributed backends, and eBPF-based observability. He currently builds and mentors Rust teams on a GraphQL platform serving millions and has driven architecture for ingress/egress proxies handling tens of millions of requests per minute at Walmart Global Tech. Comfortable across C, Go, and Rust, he’s delivered low-level work from PCIe firmware to kernel tracing using Intel PMU data and XDP/TC eBPF programs, with a consistent focus on performance, testability, and readable code. Brian splits his time between Utah and Montana, enjoys solving hard systems problems, and quietly contributes decades of practical engineering know-how—“doing the needful since 1997”—to complex networking and IoT projects.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Utah State University
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (93)
golang10
programming-language9
interpreter9
data-management9
apollo9
director9
gateway9
go9
mdbook9
rust8
compiler8
database8
data-processing8
cpp8
apollo-federation8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bgmerrell/geto
Aug 2013 - Feb 2014
Contributions:71 commits, 1 issue in 6 months
bgmerrell/simgo
Mar 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:29 commits, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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