Jonathan Merrill
Engineering Team Lead, Puzzles at Chess.com
Arcata, California, United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Merrill is an experienced frontend-focused engineering leader with 11 years building high-performance web and mobile experiences, currently leading the Puzzles and Lessons engineering team at Chess.com. He blends hands-on technical contributions in TypeScript, Vue, Svelte and testing tools with people leadership, project planning, and cross-platform coordination for backend, web, and native clients. His background includes significant front-end and distributed systems work at New Relic, where he shipped UIs and prototypes for distributed tracing, alerting, and performance visualization. Based in Arcata, CA, he pairs a practical engineering style with mentorship—growing teammates while driving safe rollouts and high-quality code. Outside work he’s an outdoors enthusiast who brings the same curiosity to software design as he does to exploring redwood country, often treating coding as a creative problem-solving outlet.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Oregon State University
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Github Skills (13)
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nodejs7
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ruby4
seed4
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frontend3
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jonmerrill2012/monte-carlo-chess-ai
Dec 2016 - Aug 2022
Stay away Bryan! No cheating.
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 9 months
cheatingbryan
jonmerrill2012/smbf-re
Feb 2021 - Feb 2025
Seed simulation for Super Meat Boy Forever
Contributions:1 push, 4 branches in 4 years
pythonsimulationseedmeatboy
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