Dana Merrick

Dana Merrick is a seasoned technology professional with extensive experience in infrastructure and DevOps engineering. Currently serving as a Principal DevOps Engineer at Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc., since February 2024, Dana previously held positions as a Staff Software Engineer at Reverie Labs, a Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Postmates, Snapdocs, and Plaid, and a Lead Infrastructure Engineer at IFTTT. Earlier roles include DevOps Engineer at Zencoder, Platform Engineer at Brightcove, and Software Engineer at BCM, Inc. Dana's technical expertise spans programming languages such as Ruby and Golang, cloud management, and infrastructure automation using tools like Terraform and Kubernetes. Dana holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Classical Mathematics from Trinity College-Hartford.