Shelby Merrick
Senior Systems Engineer at Scientific Research Corporation
Moncks Corner, South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolShelby Merrick is a Senior Systems Engineer with nearly two decades of experience architecting, deploying, and troubleshooting Linux and Solaris-based C4ISR systems for the US Navy and Marine Corps. He has led integration for large-scale GCCS and TCO deployments—supporting hundreds of fielded systems and 1,000+ node tactical networks—while driving software development efforts including Solaris J2EE applications and custom imaging/tooling. Shelby pairs deep protocol and network-forensics skills (including Wireshark plug-ins and reverse-engineering proprietary TCP/IP protocols) with practical security and DISA compliance experience for SIPRNET environments. He also contributes to open-source firmware projects, improving web UIs, MQTT integration, and WebSocket reliability for embedded devices. Based in Moncks Corner, SC, Shelby is a pragmatic troubleshooter who enjoys tackling thorny integration and performance problems that others avoid.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Western Kentucky University
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Github Skills (14)
html10
css10
javascript10
mqttnet9
esp82669
websocket9
mqtt9
user-interface8
c-language8
configuration-management8
firmware8
interface-design8
cprogramming-language8
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
forkineye/ESPixelStick
Jul 2015 - Jan 2023
Firmware for the ESPixelStick
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:91 releases, 24 reviews, 530 commits in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Shelby primarily focused on enhancing the web configuration interface for the ESPixelStick firmware. Their contributions included implementing web configuration fixes, adding options for setting various parameters (e.g., Home Assistant prefix), adding multiple input modes and a display view, improving the responsiveness of the UI, and incorporating WebSocket features such as a ping-pong heartbeat. Their work directly touched upon front-end UI design, back-end configuration, and MQTT integration.
sacnfirmwareesp8266-arduinoe131esp8266
forkineye/ESPAsyncE131
Aug 2017 - Nov 2021
Asynchronous E1.31 (sACN) library for Arduino ESP8266 and ESP32
Contributions:2 releases, 53 commits, 4 PRs in 4 years 4 months
sacnasynchronousesp8266-arduinoe131arduino-library
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