Monroe Ekilah
Principal Software Engineer at Mercury
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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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)
ui-components10
testing10
command-line-tool10
isolation10
credit-card10
html10
json10
storybook-addon10
commonjs10
nodejs10
svelte10
css10
user-interface10
web-components10
frontend10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Heyzap/heyzap-cordova
Oct 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 6 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years 1 month
objective-ccordovaapache-cordovajavascriptsdk
Heyzap/facebook-audience-network-ane
Oct 2015 - Jul 2017
A thin wrapper around the Facebook Audience Network Android and iOS SDK
Contributions:2 releases, 2 pushes, 2 tags in 1 year 9 months
facebook-audience-networkios-sdksdkandroidfacebook
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