Dana Merrick
Principal DevOps Engineer at Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc.
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolDana Merrick is a Principal DevOps Engineer based in Boston with two decades of infrastructure and platform experience and 13 years in engineering roles across startups and high-growth companies. They’ve led migrations between cloud providers, built CI/CD and developer environments, and driven reliability, security, and cost improvements using tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus, and Chef. Dana has steered infrastructure through acquisitions and audits (including SOC 2) and played a hands-on role in transitions from AWS to GCP and in containerizing production systems. Known for reducing the gap between development and production, they combine deep sysadmin roots with modern platform engineering practices to enable fast, safe delivery. An unusual strength is their blend of classical mathematics training and pragmatic tooling work, which surfaces in thoughtful automation and testable infrastructure designs.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Kimball Union AcademyBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science Classical Mathematics (double major), Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science Classical Mathematics (double major) at Trinity College-Hartford
French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
interpreter10
command-line-tool10
vagrant10
administration10
programming-language10
docker-container10
libvlc10
merge10
plaid10
geolocation10
cli10
odin10
macos10
binaries10
monitoring10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
dmerrick/lights_app
Feb 2013 - Apr 2016
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 2 months
ruby-gemhuelightsrubyphilips-hue-lights
adanalife/tripbot
Aug 2018 - Jan 2022
An ongoing 24/7 slow-TV art project
Contributions:879 commits, 252 PRs, 1202 pushes in 3 years 5 months
twitch-apilibvlcartslowongoing
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