Kevin Mershon
Senior Software Engineer at Ride Health
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Mershon is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Jose with 13 years of professional experience and over 20 years consulting across industries in business automation, process controls, and systems integration. He excels as an internal tools and platform architect, having led ETL and tooling teams in Clojure/ClojureScript and designed core services and k8s pods for data, auth, and ETL using technologies like Willa/Jackdaw, Apache Camel, GCP, BigQuery, Redis, and XTDB. Kevin combines hands-on implementation, architecture, and people leadership—equally comfortable as an individual contributor, technical salesman, or manager—and has a track record of migrating large systems and building tenant-aware ETL pipelines. He has contributed backend fixes to the popular Gekko bitcoin trading bot, showing attention to core trading logic and data precision. Known for pragmatic, durable solutions, he’s strongest when solving complex internal tooling problems for large organizations.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
San José State UniversityCentennial High School
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
exchange10
bitcoin10
javascript10
nodejs10
bitcoins10
postgresql10
trading-bot10
trading9
algorithmic-trading9
tradingview9
mongodb6
android6
grails6
integration-testing6
google-glass6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
askmike/gekko
Dec 2017 - Mar 2018
A bitcoin trading bot written in node - https://gekko.wizb.it/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Kevin contributed to the back-end functionality of the Gekko trading bot by addressing dependencies and fixing bugs. They downgraded the PostgreSQL dependency and corrected buy/sell units and market definitions for the Bitstamp exchange. Additionally, the user modified precision settings for price calculations within the Bitstamp exchange integration. These changes demonstrate a focus on core trading logic and data processing within the system.
market-makerexchangetrading-botbottrading
kevinmershon/pynia
Jan 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:63 commits, 1 comment in 9 months
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