Chris Merrill
Full Stack Developer at Utah State University
Forney, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Merrill is a seasoned full-stack developer with a decade of experience building and leading teams to deliver reliable SaaS features and migrations. He has a track record of shipping complex, data-driven solutions—from optimizing front-end rendering and app load times to diagnosing payment engines that span Postgres, Elasticsearch, and asynchronous schedulers. As a hands-on team lead at Lucid, he drove UX A/B experiments that improved retention, launched a shape library via an external language spec, and embedded a Monaco-based formula editor to improve product ergonomics. Comfortable across the stack and lifecycle, he also executed high-risk zero-downtime migrations and championed maintainable architectures, stronger code review practices, and broader test coverage. Based in Forney, Texas, Chris combines pragmatic engineering with mentorship and a demonstrated knack for turning brittle systems into scalable, production-ready platforms.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Utah State University
English, Russian, French
Github Skills (20)
directives8
python7
explore6
tooltips5
angularjs5
footprint5
angular-directives5
jquery5
bootstrap5
javascript4
expressjs4
sensor4
express-generator4
angular3
battery3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
C-Merrill/CAN_Data_Parser
Dec 2015 - Oct 2018
Contributions:6 PRs, 10 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 10 months
batterydata-processingsensorpacksensor-data
C-Merrill/PLPLSA
Dec 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 38 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 2 months
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