Merlin Mason
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorMerlin Mason is a frontend-leaning product engineer with 12+ years of professional experience and a 16-year engineering journey rooted in art-school design thinking. Based in London, he blends deep expertise in modern TypeScript stacks (React, Next.js, tRPC, GraphQL) with strong product and UX instincts, having shipped design systems, accessibility-compliant component libraries, and AI-enabled UI paradigms. He’s been a hands-on founder and CTO, scaled engineering teams and processes at startups, and played a key role in bringing Samaya AI to its first enterprise customers and Series A. Notable work includes building Healios’ WCAG AA-compliant design system and contributing UX-focused enhancements to open-source projects like an emoji picker plugin. Comfortable across backend, devops, and security concerns, Merlin excels at turning 0-1 features from concept through production while keeping user delight and measurable business impact front and center. His unconventional art-and-maths upbringing informs a disciplined yet creative approach to product engineering.
13 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (9)
javascript10
front-end-development10
jquery10
html9
css9
safari6
react-router6
jekyll6
react6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mervick/emojionearea
Apr 2016 - Aug 2016
Emoji Picker Plugin for jQuery
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 7 PRs, 13 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Merlin primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and user experience of the emoji picker plugin. They implemented a "standalone" mode, allowing the picker to function independently. Further contributions included adding placeholder functionality with corresponding styling and documentation improvements. Additionally, the user made changes to enable the updating of the standalone emoji from the recent list and updated the code to fix an existing issue.
jquery
MerlinMason/NextProject
Oct 2021 - Dec 2021
An opinionated starting point for Next.js projects
Contributions:59 commits, 22 PRs, 49 pushes in 1 month
nextjs
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