Merritt Graves

About Merritt Graves

Hands on software engineer & application architect with an MBA in Entrepreneurial and Small Business Management and extensive buy-side experience.Twenty-five years of full-stack development and leadership experience with fifteen years of experience managing globally distributed teams. Skilled at partnering with business executives and department heads to identify opportunities and implement transformative solutions for market leaders in the financial services industry across the middle and back-office functions.Expert in designing and building high-performance real-time systems, complex data warehousing solutions, cloud native and AI native custom applications. Real-world experience transforming software development teams to take advantage of modern AI powered development tools, agents, patterns and practices.Most recently I have restructured the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for the dev team to heavily leverage AI Agents and a Specifications-First methodology to transition from several developers working on one medium project to a individual full-stack developers managing multiple AI agents in parallel with rigorous processes around code review and change control.

Experience

1. Director of Application Development

   Cerberus Capital Management

   Jan 2019 — Present · New York, NY, US

Education

• University of Advancing Technology

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Software Engineering

  1996 — 1999

• CAD Institute

  Diploma, Computer Aided Design / Virtual Reality

  1995 — 1996

• Baruch College

  MBA, Management

  2008 — 2011

Skills

• Software Project Management
• Software Development
• Business Analysis
• Wcf Services
• Ajax Frameworks
• Javascript
• C#
• .net
• Service Oriented Architecture Design
• Soa
• Architectures
• Software Design
• Agile Methodologies
• .net Framework
• Architecture
• Asp.net
• Consulting
• Enterprise Software
• Management
• Requirements Analysis
• Integration