Nick Merrill
Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolNick Merrill is a Member of Technical Staff with 13 years of software engineering experience, currently at Anthropic after senior and staff roles building backend systems at Cobalt AI and Wayfair. He blends entrepreneurial grit—having founded a tennis matchmaking app and scaled a snow-plowing business—with rigorous CS training from Harvard to deliver reliable, maintainable systems that earn user and stakeholder confidence. Comfortable across backend APIs, matching algorithms, and product-focused iteration, he thrives in diverse teams that prioritize impact, humility, and long-term thinking. Nick’s work repeatedly emphasizes human-centered design and measurable outcomes, from increasing club membership through product features to tripling truck-hour earnings in a service business. Based in Boston, he brings a practical, community-minded approach to engineering that pairs depth in system design with a habit of testing ideas in the real world.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
A.B., Computer Science, A.B., Computer Science at Harvard UniversityKent Denver School
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (157)
mobile-development10
python10
material-ui10
backend10
jetbrains10
react-components10
django10
app-framework10
intellij-plugin10
django-admin10
jetbrains-ides10
cross-platform10
android10
mobile10
intellij-platform10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cloudrave/Optimizer
Apr 2013 - May 2013
Contributions:98 commits, 1 push in 1 month
nick-merrill/stickies
Feb 2017 - Jan 2022
Harvard CS179 assignment
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push in 4 years 11 months
harvard
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