Jason Merino
Staff Software Engineer at Thalamus
Durham, California, United States
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Top SchoolJason Merino is a Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience specializing in front-end and mobile development, performance optimization, and scalable systems. He has led architecture and performance efforts for high-traffic mobile apps at companies like Gemini, cutting load times by 30%+ and supporting millions of daily transactions. Comfortable across React, TypeScript, React Native, GraphQL, and Node.js, he focuses on cross-device consistency and cloud-backed, production-ready platforms. Jason mentors teams and partners with product and design to deliver measurable user impact while maintaining engineering velocity. His open-source contributions include improving reliability in a popular React Native storage wrapper by adding tests and useful array-manipulation utilities. Based in Durham, California, he combines pragmatic engineering with a curiosity for prototyping and new technology exploration.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Christian Ministry, Bachelor's degree, Christian Ministry at Point Loma Nazarene UniversityLas Plumas High School
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Github Skills (17)
asynchronous10
javascript10
react-native10
async10
testing10
asyncstorage10
jquery9
jestjs9
ios8
html6
zepto6
user-input6
realm6
android6
storage6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
jasonmerino/react-native-simple-store
Aug 2015 - Jun 2017
A minimalistic wrapper around React Native's AsyncStorage.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:49 commits, 27 PRs, 53 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the project by implementing unit tests for the React Native storage library, ensuring its reliability. They wrote tests for the save, get, update and delete functions, ensuring they behave as expected. Further contributions included extending the functionality by adding a `.push` method for array manipulation within the store.
asyncstoragereact-nativeiosandroid
jasonmerino/portfolio-web
Jun 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:12 PRs, 52 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 3 months
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