Java - Ed Merks has more than twenty-five years of practical experience using Java for implementing high-performance tools and frameworks for Java developers. Performance tuning Java of applications is one of his a highly-specialized skills.
Modeling - Ed Merks has more than twenty-five years of experience providing industrial-strength modeling frameworks that have become the defacto standard implementation of MOF.
Release Engineering - Ed Merks has ten years of experience designing and maintaining the Maven/Tycho builds for SimRel, EMF, BIRT, Oomph, and JustJ.
Web - Ed Merks has a good command of HTML, CSS, PHP, and Javascript for developing simple websites:
• https://eclipse.dev/eclipse
• https://eclipse.dev/simrel
• https://eclipse.dev/modeling
B.Sc., Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, 1986, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
M.Sc., Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, 1987, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Compilation using multiple source-to-source stages
Ph.D., Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, 1992, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Acer: manipulation principles applied to language design
English - Ed Merks grew up in 
Canada and is naturally fluent in English as his native language
German - Ed Merks has lived in 
Germany since 2011, and in 
Switzerland since 2020, and speaks German; his written skills in the language are significantly lacking.
Dutch - Ed Merks was born in the 
Netherlands and retains some fluency in the language; his written skills in the language are rudimentary.
