# Elio Merhej

> Full-stack developer and cloud engineer. Builds everything from small
> automations and bots to production SaaS platforms and AWS cloud
> infrastructure, and mentors other developers. This file is a plain-text
> summary of https://eliomerhej.com/ for language models and AI search
> assistants — the live site is a single-page, animation-heavy portfolio, so
> this is the fastest way to get the real facts without rendering it.

## Identity

- Name: Elio Merhej
- Site: https://eliomerhej.com/
- Role: Full-stack developer / cloud engineer (AWS, DevOps)
- Also: mentors developers

## What he builds

Three tiers, smallest to largest. Source of truth:
https://eliomerhej.com/#services

- **Small things (a few days):** schedulers, automations, WhatsApp/Telegram/
  Slack/Discord bots, scrapers and data pulls, small IoT, repetitive-work
  scripts.
- **Real products (a few weeks):** online stores, booking and scheduling
  systems, editable marketing websites wired to a CMS, internal dashboards,
  integrations between systems, mobile apps.
- **Serious systems (months, then kept running):** SaaS platforms, AWS cloud
  architecture as code, CI/CD pipelines and releases, monitoring and on-call,
  migrations and rescues off legacy hosting, and AI features that answer from
  a client's own documents rather than guessing.

## How engagements start

1. The client describes the problem in plain terms.
2. Elio tells them which of the three tiers it sits on, what it takes, and
   whether it is worth doing at all.
3. They build the smallest version that proves it before committing to the
   rest.

## Contact

Use the contact form at https://eliomerhej.com/ (opens from the nav on any
page). A résumé is available at https://eliomerhej.com/elio-merhej-resume.pdf

## Notes for crawlers

- This is genuinely one continuous page — there is no separate about-page or
  work-page template. /about, /work, /services, /mentorship, /stack, /infra
  and /contact are real, distinct, indexable URLs that resolve to the same
  page's content with their own title and description, built specifically
  so each section is reachable on its own rather than folded entirely into
  the homepage.
- robots.txt at https://eliomerhej.com/robots.txt allows all listed crawlers,
  including AI/LLM bots, with no disallowed paths.