Eric Merritt
Chief Technology Officer at Whitepages
Edmonds, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorEric Merritt is a seasoned engineering executive with 18 years of experience building high-impact teams and revenue-driving platforms, currently serving as Head of Engineering at Whitepages. He has a track record of transforming product and platform delivery—leading efforts at Narvar to operationalize data intake and at Sinclair to scale streaming channels and secure major sports partnerships. Eric pairs hands-on technical depth (including notable backend contributions to the Erlang release tool relx) with strategic leadership, having led cloud and real-time systems at Amazon, Five9, and high-frequency trading platforms. He has repeatedly taken nascent projects to production-grade, secure systems—most prominently as CTO of Sunlight Payments where he delivered an anti-fraud payments platform spun out with Gates Foundation involvement. Based in Edmonds, Washington, he’s comfortable operating across startups and large enterprises, unblocking customer acquisition through pragmatic engineering and cross-functional collaboration. Colleagues describe him as a builder who balances deep technical refactors with measurable business outcomes.
18 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Spanish
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Github Skills (10)
release-management10
api10
erlang10
apidoc10
build-automation10
core-erlang6
javascript6
sourcemaps6
tmux6
compiler-construction6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
erlware/relx
Apr 2013 - Mar 2014
Sane, simple release creation for Erlang
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the core logic of the `relx` release creation tool for Erlang. Their work involved enhancing the programmatic API, supporting a full range of arguments, and refactoring the codebase to better distinguish between configured and realized releases. The user also added support for creating and managing relups for release upgrades. These changes indicate a focus on improving the tool's functionality and usability for developers.
erlang
ericbmerritt/joxa
Oct 2012 - Sep 2015
Contributions:24 commits, 1 push, 4 branches in 2 years 11 months
erlanglisperlang-vm
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