--- title: "CV — Andy Merhaut" description: "Career experience, technical skills, education, and awards for Andy Merhaut, Senior Software Engineer." source: "https://andymerhaut.com/cv/" reuse_policy: "https://andymerhaut.com/reuse" --- 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 - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/andymerhaut) - [GitHub](https://github.com/tagr) ## 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](https://www.rtk-ai.app/) 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 - Developed with Sitecore XP and SXA. - Won the [Sitecore BU Next.js Hackathon](https://prft-foobar.vercel.app/USD) in 2021. ### 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](https://www.cpp.edu/president/presidents-scholars-index.shtml) - Boeing Company Scholar - CIS Student of the Year - English & Foreign Languages Department Student of the Year in German ## Awards and recognition - Special Ops — 2nd place, [Microsoft Agent Academy Hackathon](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powerplatform/agent-academy-hackathon-winners/#:~:text=by%20%40tagr-,What%20they%20built,-Calamity%20Agent%20is) (2026) - Winner, [Microsoft AI Agents Hackathon](https://microsoft.github.io/AI_Agents_Hackathon/winners/#best-use-of-azure-ai-agent-service-tariffed) (2025) - Winner, [Microsoft .NET Hackathon](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/great-dotnet-8-hack-winners/#%F0%9F%A5%87-best-overall:-nasa-techport-headlines) (2023) - Winner, [Sitecore BU Next.js Hackathon](https://prft-foobar.vercel.app/USD) (2021) - BayCare Excellence Award and Focused Recognition Award for Process Improvement - Best in Class Gold Award for the Johns Hopkins All Children's website redesign; Florida Hospital Association Mark of Excellence Award ## Attribution and reuse When quoting, summarizing, or otherwise using content from this site, credit Andy Merhaut and link to the original page using its canonical source URL. 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