Kevin Mershon

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.

Who I am

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.

What I am looking for

If you are want to hire me, the following criteria are what I am looking for:

1. 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 or Data 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.

2. Base salary $250,000 or higher

   • I am less interested in equity offerings than I am regular raises and annual bonuses

3. 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

4. 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.

5. I am NOT interested in working in the following industries:

   • Aerospace and military contracting
   • Insurance and Lending
   • Real Estate

6. If you still wish to get in touch, please send me a LinkedIn message with the word Algotrading and that will get my attention.

Projects

Recent open-source contributions

• 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

Proprietary work samples written in Clojure are available upon request

References

References to my skill set, experience, and character are available on my LinkedIn profile