Joseph Merkel
Senior Software Engineer at CKC Automation
Concord, California, United States
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Top SchoolJoseph Merkel is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in industrial data systems with about seven years of hands-on experience integrating SCADA, PLCs, and OSIsoft/AVEVA PI historians. He designs and leads data integration frameworks and ETL pipelines that enable real-time monitoring and analytics for green-energy, pharmaceutical, and food-sector clients while mentoring engineering teams. Comfortable across Python, C#, and legacy environments, he bridges operational technology and cloud-native practices to modernize historian architectures and incorporate IoT telemetry. Joseph pairs technical depth with business acumen—holding a Data Analytics certificate from UC Berkeley and a BS in Business Administration—which helps him translate stakeholder needs into auditable, GxP-compliant solutions. He’s known for turning brittle VBA and procedural scripts into maintainable analytics workflows and for building system health dashboards that materially improve uptime. Based in Concord, CA, he combines field-proven industrial controls experience with data analytics to make complex operational data both reliable and useful.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Data Analytics, Certificate Data Analytics at University of California, BerkeleyCalifornia Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoAssociate of Science - AS Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS Computer Science at Folsom Lake College
Github Skills (3)
machine-learning2
leaflet1
javascript1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jmerkel/Wasted_Energy_Generation
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Use Machine Learning to predict energy generation & energy wasted
Contributions:39 commits, 24 PRs, 37 pushes in 26 days
machine-learning
jmerkel/K-R_Reading
Nov 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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