Neal Merkl
Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolNeal Merkl is a software development engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native services, currently contributing at AWS from Cambridge, MA. His background spans backend and DevOps work—implementing Go microservices, Kubernetes and CI/CD automation, and Hyperledger Fabric smart contracts for healthcare at IBM Watson. Neal has augmented full-stack systems from Ruby on Rails frontends to Node.js backends and has practical experience instrumenting pipelines and observability stacks. He brings a pragmatic focus on reliability and secure integrations, having moved projects from research prototypes to production-grade deployments. An understated strength is his cross-domain fluency: blockchain, cloud automation, and classic web apps, enabling him to bridge teams and technologies effectively.
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 Massachusetts Amherst
English, German
Github Skills (13)
watson-assistant10
resource-management9
ibm-watson9
laravel8
ibm-cloud7
mysql7
api7
watson6
ruby-on-rails2
ruby2
rails2
json1
json-api1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
anmerkl/probable-engine
Apr 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:43 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 5 months
anmerkl/holiday-tracker
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:48 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 15 days
ruby-on-railsrailsrails-applicationruby
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