Fred Merlo
Senior AWS Engineer at Progressive Insurance
Greater St. Louis United States
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Top SchoolFred Merlo is a Senior AWS Engineer with over 15 years of experience designing and delivering cloud-native and on-premise enterprise systems across the full stack. He blends hands-on technical leadership with strategic oversight to produce scalable, secure solutions that align with business objectives, often driving Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD automation. His background spans insurance, research, consulting, and defense sectors—bringing deep expertise in AWS, Terraform/CDK, serverless patterns, and compliance frameworks like HIPAA/NIST. Fred thrives in high-uncertainty, delivery-critical environments where rapid R&D and pragmatic engineering are required to meet commitments. He has repeatedly led migrations, platform builds, and observability/SIEM initiatives for large organizations, pairing modern DevOps with software architecture discipline. Based in Greater St. Louis, he combines a long track record of enterprise impact with a curiosity for integrating AI technologies into operational pipelines.
12 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Computational Systems Engineering Computer Science, Computational Systems Engineering Computer Science at Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (3)
paypal6
paypal-sandbox6
javascript6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
fredmerlo/regex
Oct 2015 - May 2024
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 8 months
fredmerlo/geofoodtruck
May 2024 - Jul 2024
Contributions:376 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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