Michael Merritt
Senior Software Engineer at Cisco
Carlsbad, California, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Merritt is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, secure web services at Cisco (formerly OpenDNS), specializing in microservice architectures, CI/CD, and web security. He led migrations from monoliths to independently scalable services, upgraded legacy Python and Jenkins pipelines, and introduced containerized local development with docker-compose. Michael has hands-on experience across AWS, Vault/Conjur, Kubernetes, Grafana, and automated secret rotation and vulnerability scanning to harden deployments. He pairs a strong testing and infrastructure background (from Lab126 and Pogoplug) with pragmatic security leadership, regularly hunting for CSRF/XSS and integrating security tooling into delivery. Outside work he builds crypto trading bots and blockchain utilities in Go and Python, reflecting a continual curiosity for distributed systems and automation. Based in Carlsbad, CA, he combines production-scale engineering with a tester’s attention to detail and a penchant for practical security solutions.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
AA General Studies Recording Arts, AA General Studies Recording Arts at Cuesta CollegeBA Sound Arts Sounds Arts, BA Sound Arts Sounds Arts at Ex'pression College for Digital ArtsPro Tools Operator in Post-Production, Pro Tools Operator in Post-Production at Bay Area Video CoalitionPro Tools Certification Courses, Pro Tools Certification Courses at Future Rhythm
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (88)
editor9
microsoft9
nose9
blockchain-network9
electron9
vscode-extension9
typescript9
vscode9
wallet8
dotnet8
javascript8
python8
visual-studio8
ruby8
blockchain8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
opendns/jenkins-status-light
May 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 1 year 2 months
mjmj/gdax-trader
Nov 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 3 months
trading-botgdaxbottradingbitcoin-trading-bot
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