Merissa Weinstein
Engineering Manager at Grainger
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMerissa Weinstein is an engineering manager with a decade of experience leading front-end teams and shipping customer-facing web and client applications across startups and enterprise environments. She has progressed from digital design and web development into technical leadership roles at companies including Cameo, Bitwarden, Engine, and currently Grainger, blending design sensibility with engineering rigor. Her hands-on background includes accessibility and UI improvements to well-known open-source projects like Bitwarden’s client apps, showing attention to usability and security-minded product work. Merissa is comfortable scaling teams and delivery processes while remaining involved in UI detail and developer workflows, a balance that helps teams move quickly without sacrificing quality. Based in the Greater Chicago Area, she brings a multidisciplinary perspective from formal training in communication and digital media design to practical web development with JavaScript and HTML5.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Communication and Digital Media Design, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Communication and Digital Media Design at Lake Forest CollegeWeb Development with Javascript and HTML5 Program, College of Computing and Digital Media Media | Institute for Professional Development, Web Development with Javascript and HTML5 Program, College of Computing and Digital Media Media | Institute for Professional Development at DePaul UniversityThe Archer School for Girls
Github Skills (10)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
web-development10
typescript-types10
angular10
accessibility9
css8
html8
browser-extension8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
bitwarden/clients
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
Bitwarden client apps (web, browser extension, desktop, and cli).
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:86 reviews, 41 PRs, 58 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Merissa primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the Bitwarden client applications, focusing on UI improvements and accessibility enhancements. Their work involved adding labels to buttons and form elements, updating the Chrome extension link in the onboarding module, and adjusting the size of UI elements. Additionally, the user made changes to accessibility features, and removed an onboarding module.
web-browserclisafarifirefoxbrowser
merissaacosta/sugarbliss
Sep 2020 - Dec 2021
Sugar Bliss Cakes
Contributions:117 pushes in 1 year 2 months
gardensugarcakesthunderbirdbliss
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