Summary
Julia Merz is a Member of Technical Staff with 12 years of experience building AI-driven products and distributed systems, currently researching agentic knowledge work at Anthropic after leading similar efforts at OpenAI. She co-founded a YC-backed startup that raised $2M and engineered high-performance algorithms and real-time streaming systems, later moving into product management to scale an emergency EWA product to 500k MAU while slashing delivery times from days to seconds. Her background spans low-level graphics and AR rendering, cloud asset infrastructure, and payments architecture, reflecting a rare blend of research-oriented AI work and pragmatic production engineering. An occasional angel investor and former Sequoia scout, she pairs technical breadth with startup intuition and risk management experience. Notably, she has a long-running curiosity for competitive gaming and community-building that seeded early product instincts and technical experiments.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering Computer Science (EECS), Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering Computer Science (EECS) at University of California, Berkeley
Stanford Online High School
Leland High School
English, German, Spanish