Monroe Ekilah
Principal Software Engineer at Mercury
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolMonroe Ekilah is a Principal Software Engineer in Portland with 11 years of experience building product-focused web and mobile systems, currently leading frontend development at Mercury where he helped scale the company from under 10 to 500+ people. He specializes in React and TypeScript for web UIs, with occasional backend work in Haskell, and prefers roles that blend technical leadership with hands-on contribution and product design. Monroe has a track record at startups—Heyzap (acquired) and Zynga—working across SDKs, Unity, Rails, and backend services, and has experience mentoring, interviewing, and shaping engineering processes. A USC alum who started in tutoring and production roles, he brings a practical, user-centered approach to solving tricky UX and reliability problems while aggressively leveraging type safety.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Castro Valley High School
English
Github Skills (200)
storybook10
ui-components10
testing10
autocomplete10
typescript-definitions10
cocoa10
http-client10
context-menu10
command-line-tool10
markdown10
javascript10
react-component10
credit-card10
flexbox10
rrule10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ekilah/typescript-plugin-css-modules
Aug 2020 - Oct 2023
A TypeScript language service plugin providing support for CSS Modules.
Contributions:2 releases, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 2 months
css-modulescsstypescriptlanguage-service
MercuryTechnologies/cleave.js
Jun 2020 - Apr 2023
Format input text content when you are typing...
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 1 push in 2 years 10 months
text-input
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.