Randy Merrill
Software Engineer at Blinkk
Utah, United States
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Top SchoolRandy Merrill is a seasoned software engineer with 17 years of experience and over seven years focused on web application development, currently building user-centric, scalable solutions at Blinkk from Utah. He blends front-end craftsmanship and back-end robustness—demonstrated by meaningful contributions to the Git-powered Gollum wiki where he refactored core logic, added branch/ref flexibility, and reinforced test coverage. Randy’s background spans UX engineering at Google, CMS and enterprise web work in higher education, and hands-on leadership as a CIO, showing comfort across product, performance, and operational concerns. He prioritizes long-lived, maintainable systems and mentoring, and holds a Master’s in Information Assurance and Security, reflecting a strong commitment to both technical depth and continuous learning. An unusual mix of interests—from photography to personal finance and essential oils—gives him a practical, human-centered perspective on building simpler user experiences.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Management Information Systems, Bachelor's Degree, Management Information Systems at Utah State UniversityMaster's Degree, Information Assurance and Security, Master's Degree, Information Assurance and Security at Capella University
English
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Github Skills (9)
testing10
git10
wikipedia10
ruby10
documentation9
markdown7
markdown-it7
google-cloud-functions6
firebase6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
gollum/gollum
Jan 2011 - Jan 2011
A simple, Git-powered wiki with a local frontend and support for many kinds of markup and content.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Randy primarily focused on refactoring and extending the Gollum wiki's functionality. Their commits involved modifying the core logic of the wiki, introducing command-line arguments for branch specification, and updating references to use "ref" instead of "branch". Additionally, the user added tests to verify the retrieval of parent commits under different ref configurations, demonstrating improvements to the codebase's flexibility.
simple-gitapigollumdocumentation-tooljruby-support
emberfeather/yeti
Dec 2011 - Jun 2021
Yeti Debt Snowball Calculator
Contributions:239 commits, 14 PRs, 99 pushes in 9 years 8 months
optimizationsdebtcubingaplcrossword
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