Hello. If you have received this link, it is probably because you are a recruiter who reached out to me about a job description.
- Apologies for the curt response, but I am messaged several times daily by recruiters with poor prospects.
- I do not respond to cold calls or emails except with a link to this page.
- This Markdown file IS my resume, so please do not ask me for a Word document or PDF.
My name is Kevin Mershon. I am a Senior Software Engineer with 19 years experience (as of this writing), professionally employed since 2003.
I have owned and managed a software consultancy before, and I have worked in the following industries:
- Oilfield Services / SCADA
- ERP / NetSuite and high-end corporate accounting
- Shipping and Procurement
- E-Commerce
- Healthcare
Currently, I am employed full time (remote) with Ride Health. I am casually seeking employment elsewhere, but always welcome new interesting opportunities.
I am located in San Jose, CA. I am a US Citizen.
If you are want to hire me, the following criteria are what I am looking for:
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If I am to change jobs, I am looking for a role that will leverage all of my skills instead of any particular one.
Poor fits include titles like:
Software Engineer
orData Engineer
, or are for roles where I will be a developer full time, and not have any engagement with the sales pipeline, business strategy, or product development pipeline.Good fits would be titles like
Principal Software Engineer
,Software Engineering Manager
, or other such roles where I would either be acting as the CTO or working day to day with the person who fills that role. -
Base salary $250,000 or higher
- I am less interested in equity offerings than I am regular raises and annual bonuses
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If I am to be an individual contributor more than 80% of the time, I immensely prefer to work in the
Clojure
programming language.To be very explicit, I have no interest in working in the following technologies:
- NetSuite or Salesforce
- Anything Microsoft or .NET
- Ruby
I have limited tolerance for, but will not entertain the idea of doing the following Full Time:
- Python
- Java
- JavaScript / TypeScript / NodeJS / React
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Please, no coding challenges in the interview process
- If you want evidence that I am able to code, here is an index with over 100 hours of me coding live on Twitch.tv and here is a two and a half hour sample in particular of me coding in Clojure on an open-source project.
- If this is not sufficient for your company's internal processes, thank you for your interest and best of luck in your search.
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I am NOT interested in working in the following industries:
- Aerospace and military contracting
- Insurance and Lending
- Real Estate
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If you still wish to get in touch, please send me a LinkedIn message with the word
Algotrading
and that will get my attention.
- https://github.com/kevinmershon/copy-trader
- https://github.com/scicloj/scicloj.ml.smile/pull/10/files
- https://github.com/TakeoffTech/clj-camel/pull/38/files
Proprietary work samples written in Clojure are available upon request
References to my skill set, experience, and character are available on my LinkedIn profile