+Delivered frontend and backend work across several teams and repositories: performance in Budgeting & Planning and Reporting, ACFR support in Publications, and a micro-frontend integration of legacy frontends into the Public Service Platform, while supporting Kubernetes deployments with DevOps and taking on-call rotations.
+Founded the Frontend Guild for the Budgeting & Planning team, a forum for cross-team technical alignment, knowledge sharing, and frontend practice.
+Led frontend engineering standards adopted across the ~25-person Budgeting & Planning team, covering architecture, performance, development practices, and maintainability.
+Promoted to Staff Software Engineer in April 2025.
+Drove a team-wide performance initiative: common measurement standards, Grafana Faro for frontend observability, and bundling fixes that shrank bundles and sped up load times.
Author: Victor M. Merino · Tutored by Teachers · New York, NY · Remote
Role: Principal Engineer · 2022
+First engineer hired to rebuild the platform from scratch; as sole architect and engineer, designed and delivered the full stack from zero to one: architecture, infrastructure, and application.
+Took the new platform from parity to beta to fully replacing the legacy system.
+Served as architect for all major feature development and mentored engineers on design and code quality.
+After the initial launch, helped the CTO interview and hire engineers and product managers to expand the product.
Author: Victor M. Merino · Freckle Education · San Francisco, CA · Remote
Role: Senior Frontend Engineer · 2017 – 2020
+Cut page load time by ~22% with Webpack code splitting and better caching, compression, preloading, and font loading.
+Established and led a biweekly Frontend Guild focused on code quality, performance, and technical debt.
+Championed adoption of Prettier, Jest, Webpack, and Babel.
+Mentored the QA team to speed up the Nightwatch.js suite and reduce false positives.
React · Webpack · Babel · Jest · Nightwatch.js
Author: Victor M. Merino · ShipStation · Austin, TX
Role: Director of Engineering ← Senior Software Engineer ← Software Engineer · 2013 – 2017
+Managed the integrations team and served as primary architect for marketplace, carrier, and cart integrations: BigCommerce, Square, Canada Post, QuickBooks, Walmart, and more.
+Created an internal React app for managing customer accounts; was given a team to grow it, and it was adopted company-wide.
+Built an API request/response capture system that let support answer questions only developers could before, drastically reducing escalations.
+Built the BigCommerce App Store and Square Marketplace integrations, including subscriptions billed through Square.
+Member of the architecture and code review committee.
React · Partner APIs · Integrations · Team leadership
Author: Victor M. Merino · TRAX · White Sands Missile Range, NM
Role: Project Engineer · 2006 – 2013
+Built a scenario-modeling web app that gave range customers real-time cost estimates and standardized estimating across Range Operations.
+Maintained and expanded the Timing Remote Monitoring System, a C# application that monitored TRAK 9000B timing units fielded across White Sands Missile Range over National Instruments VISA.