Jake Merz
Engineer at Secret Startup mode
Newcastle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Merz is an electronic design engineer with 11 years' experience in consumer product and embedded systems design, based in the greater Seattle area. He has led PCBA architecture, low-power embedded firmware, and prototype development across startups and established teams, including work on HoloLens integration and implanted medical/NFC devices. Jake excels at bridging mechanical, RF and firmware domains—performing RF EM simulations, miniaturization, and custom C++/Python tooling to validate highly reliable hardware. He has repeatedly taken projects from feasibility and scope through production, often optimizing for cost, power and manufacturability. Currently operating in secret startup mode, he brings practical product instincts honed at consultancies and niche hardware firms. An uncommon strength is his history of building both test fixtures and distributed low-power node networks, showing comfort with system-level tradeoffs as well as hands-on board and firmware work.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Idaho
Github Skills (3)
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depth7
puzzle6
Github contributions (5)
michaelybecker/RacingEntropy
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:70 commits, 7 PRs, 59 pushes in 1 month
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jmerzian/Racing_Entropy_Build
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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