Java - Ed Merks has more than twenty years of practical experience using Java for implementing high-performance tools and frameworks for Java developers. Performance of tuning Java applications is one of his a highly-specialized skills.
Modeling - Ed Merks has more than twenty years of experience providing industrial-strength modeling frameworks that have become the defacto standard implementation of MOF.
Release Engineering - Ed Merks has five years of experience designing and maintaining the Maven/Tycho builds for EMF, Oomph, and JustJ.
Web - Ed Merks has a good command of HTML, CSS, PHP, and Javascript for developing simple websites such as this one.
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.
