Andy Merskin

Denver, CO
The first Human Risk Management platform

Living Security Unify

Engineering & Design 2021–2025
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Screenshots pulled from Living Security’s official marketing site.

Concept & Objectives

Unify analyzes security data from multiple integrations to generate risk scores and prioritize investigations for organizations of all sizes. The platform provides dashboards, mitigation workflows, training programs, employee scorecards, and recognition features to strengthen security posture.

Outcomes

  • Unify was named the Leader in The Forrester Wave™: HRM Solutions category in 2024, a category that Living Security pioneered as competitors began to emerge.
  • Accelerated front-end development and build times using cutting-edge tech (reducing delivery time ~40% vs. traditional stacks).
  • Blew customers away with something they had never seen before: a platform that was not only beautiful, but also provided actionable insights and a clear path to improvement by combining integrations, data, and a human-centered design approach tailored to their needs.
  • We built alongside our customers, incorporating feedback as the product grew, creating immediate value and a strong foundation for future growth.

I wore many hats

I blended my expertise in design & development to not only implement elegant solutions for the product, but also helped guide the dialogue across stakeholders to align on our objectives, understand the impacts of changes, and determine scope and priorities through feature planning & delegation.

Product Leadership

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

Team Leadership

Co-led a team of 3+ front-end engineers, fostering collaboration and driving project delivery according to our strengths.

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 frontend from the ground up using React, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS, and some REST endpoints using Next.js APIs within a Monorepo with shared packages.

Technologies & Skills

Leadership

  • Product Discovery
  • Project Management

Design

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

Frontend

  • Cypress
  • Docusaurus
  • Integrating REST APIs
  • React
  • Tailwind CSS
  • TanStack Query
  • Vite

Backend

  • Next.js APIs

Delivery

  • GitHub
  • GitHub Actions
  • Vercel