Chris Merritt
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolChris Merritt is a versatile software engineer and founding support engineer with a decade of experience building product features and resolving complex production issues across startups in the San Francisco Bay Area. He blends hands-on development (React, Angular.js, Python, front-end work) with customer-facing technical roles, making him adept at root-cause analysis, debugging, and translating technical details for non-engineers. His background spans full lifecycle work from early internships to product development and developer/support engineering at Skilljar and Noteefy, demonstrating both delivery and operational resilience. Chris seeks roles that combine coding with hands-on problem solving, where he can improve system reliability and directly impact customer outcomes. An early programming instructor and grader, he brings patient teaching skills that strengthen team knowledge-sharing and cross-functional communication.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of RedlandsAdvance Software Development, Advance Software Development at Code Fellows
Github Skills (8)
api-server2
react2
nodejs2
javascript2
server2
api2
css2
typescript1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
CodeFellows-Curve/curve-front-end
May 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:62 PRs, 70 pushes, 7 branches in 4 days
ChristopherKnightMerritt/api-server
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
An API server to be used as a generic back end.
Contributions:43 commits, 5 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 month
apigenericnodejsapi-serverserver
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