Andy Merskin

Denver, CO
Global risk exchange for 3rd party vendor risk

ProcessUnity TPRM

Engineering & Design 2019–2021

Concept & Objectives

Create a centralized platform that connects risk reduction efforts across departments, providing automated threat monitoring and response capabilities. Enable rapid deployment with no-code configuration and seamless data integration to reduce resource requirements while supporting compliance with global third-party risk regulations.

Outcomes

  • Expanded the design system and component library using Storybook, creating a reusable package across applications with Yarn Workspaces and an internal package library.
  • Built a custom authentication experience using AWS Cognito from scratch with React and TypeScript in collaboration with our backend team, integrating MFA capabilities to help customers fulfill compliance requirements.
  • Migrated the frontend to use Vite, aiming to reduce build times by ~70% compared to our previous build tool, Webpack.
  • Modernized the codebase using Tailwind CSS, aiming to ease maintenance pain points of legacy CSS and targeting a ~40% reduction in development time day-to-day.

Roles

I blended my expertise in UX/UI design with front-end development, leading feature epics and assessing the UX impact of changes.

Product Leadership

Helped plan and lead multiple major features from concept to delivery, ensuring alignment with business objectives and user needs.

Epic Leadership

Assumed a leadership role in feature epics, ensuring stakeholder alignment across engineering goals, business objectives, and user needs.

Design Direction

Utilized existing design system and UX patterns and enhanced them to suit the needs of each project, driving consistency across the entire platform.

Software Development

Built on top of a mature codebase using React and TypeScript

Technologies & Skills

Leadership

  • Product Discovery
  • Project Management

Design

  • Diagramming
  • Figma
  • Napkin Sketching
  • Rapid Prototyping
  • Visual Design

Frontend

  • AWS Cognito
  • Babel
  • Cypress
  • Integrating REST APIs
  • React
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Vite
  • Webpack

Backend

  • AWS (lightly)

Delivery

  • GitHub
  • GitHub Actions