Michael Merrill
Staff Technical Consultant at Vercel
Carbondale, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Merrill is a Staff Technical Consultant with 11 years of experience building and scaling engineering organizations that deliver measurable results for clients like Puma, RBI and Lego. He blends hands-on technical leadership—architecting serverless systems, APIs, and high-traffic e-commerce platforms—with people-first management that aligns individual strengths to business outcomes. Known for pushing past comfortable answers, he uses frameworks like OODA, OKRs, and Goodhart’s Law to turn ambiguity into predictable delivery and clear metrics. He’s led global teams through acquisitions and migrations, cutting region onboarding from years to weeks while maintaining stability across 80+ engineers. An unexpected influence on his decision-making is Wilderness First Responder training, which informs his calm, protocol-driven approach to high-stakes problems. Based in Colorado and active in the Formidable/consulting community, he enjoys designing structures that let teams do their best work.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Coding Bootcamp, Coding Bootcamp at Hack ReactorCoding Bootcamp, Coding Bootcamp at Turing School of Software & DesignBachelor's degree, Organizational Communication, General, Bachelor's degree, Organizational Communication, General at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (200)
javascript-client10
browser10
shopify10
static-site-generator10
ssg10
vercel10
amplify10
aws-amplify10
compiler10
storage10
appcenter10
raven10
aws-s310
javascript10
sdk10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
plato721/lights-out
Dec 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:26 PRs, 21 pushes, 26 branches in 4 months
Snapflixapp/express-server-api
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:6 PRs, 105 pushes, 10 branches in 22 days
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