Kim Merrill
Principal Instructional Designer, Computer Science at Khan Academy
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKim Merrill is a principal instructional designer and seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building developer-facing systems and curricula. At Khan Academy she designed an Intro to CS curriculum reaching 50k monthly users and led the product development of an accessible, web-based coding environment with auto-graded assessments. Previously she scaled and modernized backend services at Google—founding and growing multiple teams for Cloud Run, Maps, and App Engine—and led a major Python-to-Go migration effort. Kim blends hands-on systems and API design with pedagogy, having taught college courses and run community programs to boost diversity in tech. Based in Seattle, she combines technical breadth across cloud, backend, and education product design with a knack for turning complex infrastructure into approachable learning experiences.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Pomona College
Github Skills (8)
networking9
serverless9
scale9
container8
knative7
kubernetes7
golang7
istio6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kmerrill27/ios-tenorion
Nov 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:23 commits in 1 month
kmerrill27/tenorion
Jan 2013 - Mar 2013
Contributions:8 commits in 2 months
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