Russell Merrick
Founder And CEO at WHOOP
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolRussell Merrick is a founder, CEO, and embedded systems engineer with eight years of industry experience and a decade-plus background in FPGA and firmware design. He created Nandland, the leading beginner resource for FPGA, Verilog, and VHDL education, authored the #1 FPGA book on Amazon, and designed the Go Board used by hobbyists and students. Russell has shipped firmware for hundreds of thousands of consumer devices at WHOOP and led satellite propulsion control software at Accion Systems, demonstrating a rare blend of education, product design, and space-grade systems experience. His early career at L-3 and BAE focused on low-power, high-throughput FPGA image processing and electrical engineering, grounding his entrepreneurial work in rigorous defense and aerospace practices. Based in Greater Boston, he combines hands-on implementation with public-facing teaching—growing a sizable YouTube following while still contributing to high-reliability embedded products.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
UMass LowellBachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Github Skills (16)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nandland/nandland
Dec 2018 - Aug 2022
All code found on nandland is here. underconstruction.gif
Contributions:35 commits in 3 years 8 months
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nandland/getting-started-with-fpgas
May 2023 - Aug 2023
Verilog and VHDL for book
Contributions:9 pushes in 2 months
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