Kim Merino is an empathetic engineering manager in Los Angeles with 11 years of experience transforming teams and systems across startups and enterprise environments. A former teacher with an M.Ed., she brings a pedagogy-driven approach to mentoring engineers, hiring, and career development while leading distributed teams to ship security, data, and infrastructure features. Her hands-on background spans front-end work for high-profile campaigns (including Super Bowl-related projects), large-scale data processing on GCP and AWS, and launching CI/CD and release practices that cut delivery cycles dramatically. At Netlify and Coiled she combined product ownership with technical leadership to deliver rate limiting, application firewalling, and scalable Dask container tooling. Known for building inclusive, productive teams, she pairs data-driven process improvements with a coach-first management style that surfaces talent and accelerates outcomes.
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