Justin Merz
Senior Technology Architect at University of California, Davis
Sacramento, California, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Merz is a Senior Technology Architect with 13 years of experience designing and building open-source platforms that enable data-intensive research and institutional digital assets at UC Davis. He leads the Library Digital Applications team, blending hands-on application development, data management consulting, and deployment expertise to support campus research and the library’s service vision. His background includes building domain-specific web tools and connectors—such as Earth Engine integrations, water-network visualizations, and a digital asset management system—demonstrating an ability to turn research workflows into production-ready software. Known for bridging research and library priorities, he frequently delivers reusable components that accelerate project onboarding across interdisciplinary teams. Based in Sacramento, he pairs deep institutional knowledge with practical engineering, often solving niche problems like CommonJS integration for Earth Engine that others overlook.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science and Engineering at University of California, Davis
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Github Skills (120)
ucd10
database10
spectral10
fedora10
linked-data10
system-information9
node-postgres9
libpq9
docker9
cli8
render8
bing-api8
testing8
postgresql8
google-earth8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ucd-library/rp-ucd-client
Jun 2020 - Jun 2022
Client application for UCD Davis Library research profiles
Contributions:6 reviews, 92 PRs, 276 pushes in 2 years
ucddavis
UCDavisLibrary/fin-node-api
Oct 2017 - Jun 2021
NodeJS API for interacting with the FIN Fedora instance
Contributions:124 pushes, 7 branches, 2 comments in 3 years 8 months
apinodejsnodejs-apifedorafin
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