Jay Merritt
Platform Engineer
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Merritt is a Platform Engineer based in New York with a decade of experience designing and operating scalable cloud infrastructure. He has moved from hands-on system architecture and senior administration roles into cloud and platform engineering, with tenure at SingleHop/INAP and a current role at Crunchtime. As a co-founder of a managed IT shop earlier in his career, he brings an entrepreneurial mindset to building reliable, production-ready systems and automations. Comfortable across server ops, cloud platforms, and system engineering, he focuses on efficiency and scalability while mentoring teams through operational best practices. Jay’s background in both architecture and computer science gives him a practical edge in translating business needs into resilient platform solutions.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Architecture and Computer Science, High School, Architecture and Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Spanish
Stackoverflow
16reputation
162reached
4answers
0questions
Github Skills (22)
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drupal6
docker6
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ruby6
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zsh5
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virtualization5
automation5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jmerritt/aoc2022rust
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:19 commits, 21 pushes in 10 days
jmerritt/jmerritt
Dec 2022 - Mar 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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