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Andy Merhaut

Andy Merhaut

Curriculum vitae

Lead engineer for the healthcare, hospitality, and commercial insurance industries, with experience in enterprise software and applied AI.

Greater Tampa Bay Area

Technical skills

Languages and application development

C#, JavaScript, SQL, CSS, Swift, .NET Core, React, React Native, Vue.js, Blazor

Platforms and engineering

Sitecore XP and SXA, Salesforce, SharePoint Online, SQL Server, software observability, CLI

Applied AI

GitHub Copilot, Copilot Studio, MCP

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

FM

2023–Present

  • Development lead for the public websites team.
  • Recognized for contributions to the 2024 FM Global-to-FM rebranding and several Sitecore upgrades from version 9 to 10.4.
  • Reduced the team's token usage by 50% with a custom Rust Token Killer implementation.
  • In 2026, accelerated team adoption of AI by integrating GitHub Copilot skills, agents, and MCP connectors into development workflows for code quality checks, documentation, and code reviews.
  • In 2026, created custom Copilot Studio document-processing and generative AI flows to extract summaries from more than 300 FM loss prevention data sheets.

Lead Sitecore Developer (Contract)

Hilton Grand Vacations

2022–2023

  • Built Sitecore e-commerce experiences for a major hospitality brand, including region-based personalization and multilingual travel-offer pages.
  • Integrated Salesforce web-to-lead into the purchase funnel and used web workers for non-blocking checkout functionality.
  • Delivered renderings for a Korean SXA website and partnered with DevOps, payments, and performance testing teams on high-traffic campaigns.

Lead Technical Consultant — Sitecore

Perficient

2021–2022

BayCare Health System

Enterprise Software Engineering and Digital Marketing

2013–2021

Manager, Enterprise Software Engineering · 2020–2021

  • Led a team of 20 developers, QA analysts, and business analysts, alongside more than eight consultants.
  • Managed priorities across Sitecore, Salesforce, SharePoint Online, and .NET application development
  • Team member satisfaction and retention KPIs exceeded the healthcare industry top-decile benchmark.

Senior Sitecore Developer · 2019–2020

Led the consumer website team and delivered a 100-plus-feature stretch goal by Q3 in two consecutive years. Worked with Sitecore XP and SXA.

Senior Application Developer, Enterprise Software Engineering · 2018–2019

Developed healthcare applications with .NET Core, DevExtreme UI, React, SignalR, and SQL Server.

Senior SQL Developer, Enterprise Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence · 2017–2018

  • Developed in Oracle Exadata and Microsoft SQL Server environments; completed BayCare's Aspiring Leaders Program.
  • Built OCR processing for scanned EMR documents and evaluated Apache Spark, MLLib, and Kafka.

Senior Web Application Developer, Digital Marketing · 2013–2017

  • Led mobile development for baycare.org with Vue.js, SCSS, and Sitecore.
  • Built mobile apps, REST APIs, automated website tests, and an augmented-reality indoor navigation prototype using Bluetooth beacons.
  • Created web analytics and service integrations and improved development workflows across teams.

Web Application Developer

Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital

2009–2013

  • Designed and developed the hospital website using responsive layouts, adaptive server controls, jQuery, and LESS.
  • Reduced design-asset load times by 20–40% through a mobile performance budget.
  • Created JavaScript applications, REST API integrations, and analytics tracking for internal and public-facing sites.

Programmer / Analyst

Geographic Solutions, Inc.

2006–2009

Developed ASP.NET and SQL Server applications for the Fund Tracking team and Virtual OneStop (Employ Florida Marketplace).

Education

Bachelor of Science, Business Administration — Computer Information Systems

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona · Summa cum laude

  • WK Kellogg Scholar
  • President's Scholar
  • Boeing Company Scholar
  • CIS Student of the Year
  • English & Foreign Languages Department Student of the Year in German

Awards and recognition