Owen Merkling
Solopreneur at TBD
Greater Houston United States
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Top SchoolOwen Merkling is a versatile software engineer with 15 years of experience building complex web and mobile user experiences, now working as a solopreneur creating AR/XR tools for interactive art and live performance. He has led frontend architecture and performance work at Google and NVIDIA, migrating large-scale applications to modern single-page architectures, CDNs, and backend federations to improve UX and scalability for hundreds of thousands to millions of users. His background blends machine learning, GPU-accelerated computer vision for real-time receipt scanning, and systems-level frontend infrastructure—skills he applies to immersive, realtime experiences today. Comfortable across product, research, and on-call operational roles, Owen pairs deep technical craft with a practical focus on measurable user impact. An early contributor to Drive frontend infrastructure and offline systems, he brings experience turning experimental prototypes into production features used at scale.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Brigham Young University
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Github Skills (13)
jam10
plovr9
game-engine7
zen7
game-development7
documentation7
optimization7
open-source6
godot6
javascript6
protocols6
python6
networking6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
GameKit28/GGJ2020-ZenGarden
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
Zen Garden Global Game Jam 2020
Contributions:1 release, 54 commits, 36 pushes in 10 days
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omerkling/still-alive-show-2017
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:13 pushes, 5 branches in 1 month
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