# Scott Merkling

> Software Engineer at Vesta

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/scottmerkling

Fullstack software developer interested in solving complex problems with simple systems.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Vesta
Jan 2022 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Twitch
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Working with Go on the GraphQL team to help Twitch have a consistent, performant, and maintainable GraphQL API.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Optimizely
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
* Designed and implemented backend features, including API development and data modeling
* Led the technical design/implementation of large features that impacted Optimizely's web and fullstack clients, the core application, and the event counting infrastructure.
* Worked with product team and engineering management to scope project work and timeline
* Mentored engineers through code and design review

### Software Developer @ Rutgers
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 | New Brunswick, NJ
Designed and built a web version of Gato, an open source graph animation project.(http://gato.sourceforge.net/).  I used Javascript with SVG to visualize graph algorithms, such as Dijkstra's shortest path, BFS, etc.

### English Teacher @ Guru English School
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Chiang Mai, Thailand
• Experienced life in Chiang Mai, Thailand

• Taught students from a variety of ages and backgrounds

• Needed to break down complex grammatical structures into simple pieces to facilitate student learning

### Software Engineer @ Referabuyer
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Martinsville, NJ
•Worked with Python and Go to develop an email marketing application that integrates with eBay to automatically create and send newsletters created from real-time auction data.

• Developed an analytics application with Django for paramaterized scheduled reporting.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
Rutgers University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/scott-merkling-58180237

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Last updated: 2026-04-10